. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . Chrthe istian uses, or as weddini^ presents, &c. InMiildle Ages, from the 8th to the i6th cen-. Fig. 403. Ivory carving, 15th century,tury, the use of ivory was adopted for general purposes. The favourite subjects of the carv-ings are those drawn from the romances of theMiddle Ages—especially the roman
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . Chrthe istian uses, or as weddini^ presents, &c. InMiildle Ages, from the 8th to the i6th cen-. Fig. 403. Ivory carving, 15th century,tury, the use of ivory was adopted for general purposes. The favourite subjects of the carv-ings are those drawn from the romances of theMiddle Ages—especially the romance of theRose —and in the 15th century, scenes ofdomestic life, illustrating the dress, armour,and manners and customs of the day. Combsof every date, from the Roman and Anglo-Saxon period, and earlier, are found in Britishgraves. In short, from the time when the firstprehistoric carvings of antediluvian animalswere made to the present, every age of humancivilization appears to be more or less fullyillustrated in carvings upon ivory and bone.(See also Chessmen.) The earliest materialwas found in the tusks of the mammoth : fromIceland we have beautiful carvings of the 7thcentury in the teeth of the walrus. Fossil tusksof the mammoth are found in great quantitiesin Siberia, and are almost the only material ofthe ivoiy-turners work in Russia. African andAsiatic elephant ivory are
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