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 37
he figures upon the silver treasures of Boscoreale and Bernay.It has been conjectured that silver plate of this kind may have been selected for imita-tion at the time when the edicts of iconoclastic emperors forbade the reproduction ofreligious subjects. But Byzantine silver plate of the sixth… … Relief from the pulpit of Niccolo Pisano at Pisa. the votive shield of Theodosius at Madrid.3 In the West the embossed figure-subjects ofthe Carolingian period noticed under no. 44 are identical in style with those upon a groupof contemporary ivory panels, while both are based upon illustrations in…
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