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 93
f the armed man is seen on a portablealtar of about A. D. I ioo formerly in the Spitzer Collection [Gazette archcologique, xiv, pi. xxiiiand xxiv). But perhaps the nearest parallels to the whole design occur in Rhenish illuminatedMSS. painted towards the middle of the 12th century. The large… … Reverse of No. 40. a. i). 1150J in the same collection the resemblances are more numerous. The vase-like centres withtheir ornamental bands occur again ; the collars of the foliage are dotted in the same way ;there are similar bands of interlacing in the borders and similar masks, while in more…
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