Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . SKM (50). IVORY CARVING CIRCULAR COYER. DATE HOO-ISiR tSOLTIKOFF OJLL) DIAM Sj if!a (^2W rjj-| y JONES rizcir. I 36 MIRROR CASE. IVORY. No. 210—1865. T N shape this mirror case is similar to the mirror case which has been?*? engraved and described, in plate six. It is also of the same date, about1270, and may with equal justice be attributed to an English artist,although ivories of this class and style have for a long time been, toohastily perhaps, given to French sculptors.
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . SKM (50). IVORY CARVING CIRCULAR COYER. DATE HOO-ISiR tSOLTIKOFF OJLL) DIAM Sj if!a (^2W rjj-| y JONES rizcir. I 36 MIRROR CASE. IVORY. No. 210—1865. T N shape this mirror case is similar to the mirror case which has been?*? engraved and described, in plate six. It is also of the same date, about1270, and may with equal justice be attributed to an English artist,although ivories of this class and style have for a long time been, toohastily perhaps, given to French sculptors. One remark cannot be dis-puted : that there are numerous ivory carvings existing, of the fourteenthand fifteenth centuries, which it is quite impossible to refer with absolutecertainty either to the English or the French school. In some instanceswe have a guide if we can trace their pedigree, or know from whence theywere obtained; about others we may have a known history. But wherethese evidences fail, we must be content to remain in doubt. This mirror case is quite as charming in design and as good inexec
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