Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (1909)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 102
n (Molinier,Ivoires, pi. vi). An object of somewhatsimilar shape is the wooden metal-coveredreliquary of Bego at Conques (early 12thcentury; see Didron, A/males archio-logiques, xvi, 1856, p. 277 ; Molinier, Hist.des arts appliques a Iimiustrie, iv, Lor-Qvrerie, p. 115). On this reliquary… … His right hand 48 IVORY CARVINGS grasps the hand of the Almighty, which issues from a cloud above. To right andleft are two angels, the Virgin and the apostles, among whom St. Peteroccupies the foremost place, holding his keys, the wards of which are carvedmonogrammatic form with letters ot his…
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