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 44
s rivals; for though Mohammedan artists in Egypt, Sicily, and 1 See C. Scherer, Elfenbeinplastik, as above, ch. iii ; A. Maskcll, Ivories, ch. xix. INTRODUCTION Ml Spain produced the most admirable work throughout the Middle Ages, their subjectswere chiefly restricted to geometrical, floral and… … English diptych of the fourteenth century in the collection of Mr. Cieorgc Salting. was held by the Carolingian Franks; but as their work was seldom original, and neverseems to have affected the progress of the greater art, posterity owes to them no suchdebt of gratitude as to the ivory carvers of…
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