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 41
tural form, the top being fashioned into a gable. At all periods ivory carvings inthe actual shape of buildings have been rare ; the Carolingian reliquary in the col-lection is an example of exceptional interest (no. 47): another is the reliquary in theform of a Romanesque church in the Musee des… … Types of canopies from a thirteenth-century manuscript in the British Museum. early forms, the habit of slurring over details, the use at the same period ofa perplexing variety of types, are all causes which diminish its archaeological value.Within broad limits, the architecture upon ivories may…
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