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 95
pi. xix, xxi). Examples of similarornament may be seen in Mr. C. E. Keysers work upon Norman tympana. Seal of morse ivory engraved in intaglio with a figure of St. Alban seated upona throne without a back, his feet resting upon a low footstool. He wearsa mantle fastened upon the right shoulder, and… … On the back, at the top, a lions head is carved in relief; a hole drilled across themouth served for suspension.See figure. 12th century. L. 3-25 in. Sloane Coll. 1753, no. no. See Catalogue of Seals in the Department ofManuscripts, vol. i, 1SS7, nos. 3939 and 3942. The surface is much worn. The…
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