The Ivory Workers of the Middle AgesCust, Anna Maria Elizabeth
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The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages
Cust, Anna Maria Elizabeth
Ivories -- History; Ivories, Medieval
53. VI. cent.
_a._ Rome carrying orb and spear.
_b._ Constantinople carrying cornucopia and palm.
Later inscription _Temperancia_ and _Castitas_.
_Cabinet of Antiquities, Vienna Museum._
54. VI. cent.
_a._ A bald man standing half under a porch.
_b._ Slightly varied pose.
_Cathedral Treasury, Novara._
55. VI. cent. Standing figure.
_Museo Civico, Bologna._
56. VI. cent. Muse, standing (broken, found at Trèves).
_Berlin Museum._
57. VI. cent. (?)
_a._ Figure, sitting.
_Cabinet of Antiquities, Vienna._
_b._ Figure, standing.
_Bargello, Florence._
PRIVATE DIPTYCHS
58. End of IV. or commencement of V. cent.
_a._ Nicomachorum. Draped figure and torch.
_Musée de Cluny, Paris._
_b._ Symmachorum. Draped figure and altar.
_Victoria and Albert Museum, London._
59. V.-VI. cent.
_a._ Hippolytus and Phædra.
_b._ Diana and Endymion.
_Museo Civico, Brescia._
60. VI. cent. Two registers. Dioscuri. Europa and the Bull.
_Trieste Museum._
61. VI. cent.
_a._ Æsculapius.
_b._ Hygeia.
_Mayer Collection, Liverpool._
62. VI. cent.
_a._ Muse with lyre.
_b._ Poet.
_Tesorio della Basilica, Monza._
63. VI. cent.
_a._ and _b._ Authors and Muses, varied poses.
64. VI. cent.
_a._ Bacchus Helios.
_b._ Diana Lucifera (formerly in the Cathedral Treasury).
_Sens Museum._
65. VI. cent. Three registers. Apollo and the Muses (broken).
_Bibliothèque nationale, Paris._
LIST OF MUSEUMS
The following Museums are richest in Mediæval Ivory Carving.
_Austria._
VIENNA. (Cabinet des Antiques),
K. K. Oesterreichisches Museum.
_England._
LONDON. British Museum.
Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington.
(This museum has a large collection of Fictile Ivories.)
Salting Loan Collection.
LIVERPOOL. Mayer Collection. Free Public Museum.
MANCHESTER. John Rylands Library. (Late Crawford Collection.)
OXFORD. Bodleian Library.
_France._
PARIS. Bibliothèque nationale
Cabinet des Médailles. Département des MSS.
Musée de Cluny.
Musée du Louvre.
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