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 122
with interlacing arches. On the sides, twodifferent foliated designs: on the right side that of fig. on the present page, no. 25 ;on the left, that of the same, no. 27.Plates XLawrfXLI. H. 3 in. The crown is badly damaged. 88. ANOTHER, similar. The back of the chair is ornamented with bold spiral… … 23 24 05 28 27 28 29 Designs carved on the sides of the chairs of chess-pieces from Lewis. 89. Bishop, seated in a chair with high back, and holding a book and crozier. Hewears a chasuble, on the back of which is a cross. On his head is a low mitrewith infulac. His hair is long and straight. The…
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