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 172

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 172 — broken from the lower right-hand corner of the ivory, which isconcave at the back. 339. STATUETTE: St. Catherine standing upon the prostrate form of the Emperor.In her right hand she holds a sword, in the left a wheel. Plate LXXV. 14th century. H. (with crown and stand) 7-1 in. 1856. (Maskell… … H.6in. 1858. The figure is partly painted and gilded. The face and hands are pink, the interior of the ears n8 IVORY CARVINGS of the monster red : the hair and the ornament of the saints garment, as well as a floriateddesign upon the monsters back, are gilded. Proceedings of the Society of…

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