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 162

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 162 — kj H.4-9in. 1S56. (Maskell Collection.)The hinges are modern. This diptych has affinities of style with the group of pierced ivories, nos. 311 ff.; the types ofthe heads recall those of no. 311 (Plate LXX). The general effect is hard and unpleasing. 311. Openwork panel: the Trinity. The Almighty is…

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