Westwood, J. O.; South Kensington Museum [Editor]: A descriptive catalogue of the fictile ivories in the South Kensington Museum: with an account of the continental collections of classical and mediaeval ivories (London: Chapman & Hall, 1876)

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Fictile Ivory Cafts.

dently of a fuperior rank, holds a lantern. Above, in the angles, two
cherub angels. Boldly defigned, the features and mufcles ftrongly
marked.
Arundel Soc., xiv. k.

(9/1.)

'55-
PLAQUE. St. Jerome. Spanifh ? 16th century. Original
in the collection of the late J. G. Nicholls, Efq. H.
4| in., W. 3| in.
St. Jerome in the defert, with a napkin girt round his middle, kneel-
ing before a crucifix, the foot of which he holds with his left hand, his
right holding a ball. Before him lies a lion ; a ikull lies near the foot
of the crofs. The cardinal's hat and cloak hang on the boughs of a
tree to the left.
Rudely defigned.

(912)

'58. 60.
PLAQUE. The triumph of Death. German? 16th cen-
tury. Original in the Meyrick (Douce) Collection. H.
4| in., W. 9Ι in.
A car, in the ihape of a large oblong box, on wheels, with four fkele-
tons hand in hand, carved on its fide, is drawn along by two bullocks,
with rings in their nofes. A number of bodies lying on the ground,
over which the wheels are rolling, including a king, a pope, a prieft,
and many laity, male and female, young and old.
Carved in low relief.

(913.)

PLAQUE. A proceffion of mythological and
perfonages. French. 16th century. Original
Mufeum of the Louvre, Paris. H. 44 in.. W. 8^ in.

facred
in the

A proceffion of mythological and facred perfonages. Hercules with
his fword, Samfon with the jaw-bone of the afs, Joihua with his fword,
Minerva with the head of the Gorgon (or poffibly Judith with the