FOLLOWING PAGE PASTORAL STAFF CARVED IVORY WITH FIGURES. Frontispiece IVORY CARVING. ONE LEAF OF THE DIPTYCHON MELERETENSE. 34 IVORY CARVING. CIRCULAR MIRROR COVER. DATE 1300-1330. 74 IVORY CARVING, HEAD OF A TAU OR T SHAPED STAFF, IN WALRUS TUSK, THE COMPARTMENTS CONTAINING THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. 85 CROSIER IN CARVED IVORY AND GILT METAL. 86 TRIPTYCH, SERVING AS A RELIQUARY IN CARVED IVORY ABOUT 1480. 96 HORN OR OLIPHANT. IVORY. BYZANTINE. 11^{TH} CENT. 114 PLAQUES OR PANELS OF A CASKET, ONE A FRAGMENT, IVORY, FRENCH. 116 CARVED IVORY BOX, WITH ARABIC INSCRIPTION. HISPANO-MORESCO. 118 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