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 183
ompartments are surmounted by triplearchitectural canopies ; the central compartment is flanked by buttresses. Theground is hatched throughout. Plate LXXII. French, late 14th century.L. 4 in. Given by Major-Genernl Meyrick, 187S. 373. Panel in low relief: a pair of letters (a) connected by a… … L. 5-2 in. The scheme of the design recalls that upon the gilt metal handle of an enamelled knife withthe arms of Philip the Good, now in the Louvre. On this knife two es are similarly joined,while a similar floral scroll ornaments the bevelled edges of the pommel. Two panels in the Musee de Cluny…
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