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Ivories in Italy.
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A head cut out of a folid block of ivory (6 in. by 5 in.), the profile
extremely beautiful, the eyes now hollow were probably originally of
filver.
A buft of an emperor in femi-relief, evidently a portrait.
Six or eight fmall bufts of excellent workmanihip, including one of
Minerva in fcale armour, with the head defended by a helmet.
A portion of a remarkable group of a triumphal car drawn by four
horfes, in very high relief, clofely refembling the baf-relief of Marcus
Aurelius on the flairs of the Capitol Mufeum.
An early piece about 2| in. fquare, here mifplaced, with a figure of
Chrift, young and beardlefs, ftanding between two looped-up curtains,
with a plain nimbus and a long robe hanging loofely from the fhoulders,
his left hand extended acrofs the breaft.
A poet, with a mafk and a book, in incifed lines.
Various groups of fatyrs, nymphs, fawns, amorini, fome of them
entirely in the ftyle of the carvings on the farcophagi.
Several draughtfmen of large fize, marked with fmall concentric
rings.
A number of ivory dolls, feveral of the beft of which are cut into
two parts.
An oval Etrufcan piece, W. 4 in. by Η. 3 in., reprefenting a
female feated giving milk to a cow from her breaft, above which is a
vulture.
Several mirror cafes, one reprefenting two lovers playing at chefs.
Another with two lovers feated near a tree, at the foot of which is a
vafe like a lion's head, in which lies a human head, to which the lovers
point ; a figure of cupid feated in the tree. Another with the Murder
of the Innocents. Defcribed above from a caft, No. 875, p. 310.
There are alfo feveral writing tablets with love fcenes, and many
bone pieces of North Italian work, portions of cafkets with fcenes of
romance hiftory.
ROME.
THE
VATICAN.
B. The following are the chief of the Christian Ivories.
I. Cvlindrical pyx, of the early Chriftian period, with the miracles
of the raifing of Lazarus and the healing of the blind and the paralytic.
Caft defcribed above, No. 770, p. 273. Photographed by Simelli, in
three parts, Photographs of Early Chriftian Antiquities.
2. The great book-cover, with the youthful Chrift treading on the
lion and bafilisk. Caft defcribed above, No. 117, p. 51. Gorius,
Thes. Dipt., iii. pl. iv.; alfo beautifully photographed by Simelli,
343
A head cut out of a folid block of ivory (6 in. by 5 in.), the profile
extremely beautiful, the eyes now hollow were probably originally of
filver.
A buft of an emperor in femi-relief, evidently a portrait.
Six or eight fmall bufts of excellent workmanihip, including one of
Minerva in fcale armour, with the head defended by a helmet.
A portion of a remarkable group of a triumphal car drawn by four
horfes, in very high relief, clofely refembling the baf-relief of Marcus
Aurelius on the flairs of the Capitol Mufeum.
An early piece about 2| in. fquare, here mifplaced, with a figure of
Chrift, young and beardlefs, ftanding between two looped-up curtains,
with a plain nimbus and a long robe hanging loofely from the fhoulders,
his left hand extended acrofs the breaft.
A poet, with a mafk and a book, in incifed lines.
Various groups of fatyrs, nymphs, fawns, amorini, fome of them
entirely in the ftyle of the carvings on the farcophagi.
Several draughtfmen of large fize, marked with fmall concentric
rings.
A number of ivory dolls, feveral of the beft of which are cut into
two parts.
An oval Etrufcan piece, W. 4 in. by Η. 3 in., reprefenting a
female feated giving milk to a cow from her breaft, above which is a
vulture.
Several mirror cafes, one reprefenting two lovers playing at chefs.
Another with two lovers feated near a tree, at the foot of which is a
vafe like a lion's head, in which lies a human head, to which the lovers
point ; a figure of cupid feated in the tree. Another with the Murder
of the Innocents. Defcribed above from a caft, No. 875, p. 310.
There are alfo feveral writing tablets with love fcenes, and many
bone pieces of North Italian work, portions of cafkets with fcenes of
romance hiftory.
ROME.
THE
VATICAN.
B. The following are the chief of the Christian Ivories.
I. Cvlindrical pyx, of the early Chriftian period, with the miracles
of the raifing of Lazarus and the healing of the blind and the paralytic.
Caft defcribed above, No. 770, p. 273. Photographed by Simelli, in
three parts, Photographs of Early Chriftian Antiquities.
2. The great book-cover, with the youthful Chrift treading on the
lion and bafilisk. Caft defcribed above, No. 117, p. 51. Gorius,
Thes. Dipt., iii. pl. iv.; alfo beautifully photographed by Simelli,