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 128
a deep slit with which communicate four holesdrilled from the back. A buckle of morse ivory, without engraved ornament, is at Copenhagen [Annaler for NordiskOldkyttdighed, 183S-9, p. 148, and pi. i, fig. 13). 146-159. DRAUGHTSMEN: plain discs, with twoconcentric circles engraved round the… … 160. CHESS-PIECE : a bishop seated upon an ornate chair with cushion. The back ofthe chair has in the upper part an arcade of three arches, beneath each of which isa seated figure of a saint or apostle in low relief, that in the middle holding a cross;in the lower part, divided from the upper by a…
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