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 34
grant Greeks from Syria or Asia Minor; but here, as in the West,the imported ivory may also have played its part. A certain resemblance between the style ofGandhara sculpture and that of ivory carvings made in the Christian East has already been noted(W. R. Lethaby in Proceedings of the Society of… … Figure of our Lord on thehigh cross at Bewcastle. XXX11 INTRODUCTION Careful studies have led to the conclusion that ivory carving must have countedfor much in the development of Romanesque sculpture in the South of France.1The disposition of subjects often resembles that which prevailed in the…
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