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 142

An illustration from 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, leaf 142 — rown of thorns : above the cross isa titulus with IH RI • On the lower border a winglessdragon is carved in low relief. In the spandrels of thecanopy are two rosettes. See figure. 14//^ century. L. 4-92 in. 1S36. Inserted in the cover of a Martyrology in English verse of the14th century in the… … 88 IVORY CARVINGS 245. Triptych: the Crucifixion and our Lord and the virgin in glory. Onthe leaves, to left and right of the former subject, are St. Stephen and St. Thomasa Becket; above them, St. Peter and St. Paul. All are under crocketed canopies ;that covering the Crucifixion is a single arch,…

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