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 69

An illustration from 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, leaf 69 — nament of the broad zoneconsists of symmetrical vine-branches which rise from fourvases resting upon the lower bandof fret, and enclose four medal-lions with busts of angels, andfour birds with raised wings; thelower leaves are naturalistic, whilethose at the top assume the con-ventional form of… … Ivory Vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Plate X. Byzantine, 6t//-iot// century. H. 9 in. 1856. (Maskell Collection.) A long vertical crack down one side has been mended with a plaited gold wire attached to thebody of the vase in seven places. Near the rim two holes have been drilled, one on…

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