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 218
uds. She holds a lily in her hand. Plate CVI. 1 Jt/i century. H. 2-4 in. 1856. (Maskell Collection.) The medallion is mounted in metal with a ring for suspension. The dog with the torch appears on the arms of the Dominicans. It had its origin in a dreamof the mother of St. Dominic before his birth,… … 164 IVORY CARVINGS The device has often been connected with the description of the Dominicans as Domini canes,suggested by Augustines Commentary on a verse of Psalm lxvii (see Cahier, Caractcris-tiques des Saints, i, p. 216). 515. Another, carved in higher relief: St. Bernard carrying the…
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