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Ivories Ancient and Mediæval

Chapter 3: LIST OF WOODCUTS.
By William Maskell
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A concise handbook surveying ancient and medieval ivory carving, comparing true elephant ivory with walrus, narwhal, hippopotamus and fossil mammoth ivory, and discussing material properties and sourcing. It describes carving techniques, common forms (diptychs, reliquaries, triptychs, mirror-covers, combs, chessmen, staffs, and horn oliphants), regional styles and workshop practices, and provides catalog-like descriptions illustrated with woodcuts and plates drawn from museum collections. The text examines size and working of large plaques, the use of bone as substitute material, iconography, and functional contexts of objects, aiming to inform collectors and readers about history, manufacture, and classification of ivory artifacts.

LIST OF WOODCUTS.

  PAGE
Prehistoric carving  9
Esquimaux carving  9
Prehistoric carving in relief 10
””  in outline 11
””  of the Mammoth 11
Angel; end of fourth century 36
Vase; end of sixth century 46
Book cover; Carlovingian 49
Panel of an English casket; eighth century 53
Another panel of the same 54
St. Peter’s chair 56
Spanish Moresque panel 57
Coffer painted with medallions 59
Open-work; two small panels 64
Italian marriage coffer 64
Part of a Predella, in bone 66
Cover of a box, with Morris Dancers 68
English comb; eleventh century 70
Italian comb; sixteenth century 71
Mirror case; fourteenth century 74
Another”” 75
Chessman; twelfth century 80
” thirteenth century 81
Arm of a chair; eleventh century 82
Two groups of chessmen, found in the island of Lewis 83
The volute of a pastoral staff; thirteenth century 87
”””   English; twelfth century 90
One leaf of a diptych in very high relief; fourteenth century 100
Group, a Pietà; late fourteenth century 103
Painter at work on a statuette 105
Chaplet and beads; and girdle, with ivory clasps 112
Horn; fifteenth century 113
Two panels in open-work; fourteenth century 115
Panel in minute open-work 115
Leaf of diptych, executed for bishop Grandison; fourteenth century   117

IVORIES
ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL.