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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. 11TH 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.

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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.

CHAPTER I.

Every description or account of Carvings in Ivory ought to include similar carvings in bone, of which last many remarkable examples are to be found in the South Kensington and other museums. The rarity and value of ivory frequently obliged workmen to use the commoner and less costly material.