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)

Ivories in Switzerland.

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the Virgin and St. John ftanding at the fides of the Crofs. Below,
the Nativity treated very quaintly, the Virgin in the middle lying on a
couch, above which is the Child with the ox and afs and two angels, a
ray of light defcending from the top, the ihepherds above to the left,
Jofeph feated on the fame fide below, whilft at the right fide the Child
is wafhed by Salome and Anaftafia in a vafe.
Plaque, with the Baptifm of Chrift, who is ftanding in a kind of
bucket; the Baptift holds a curved fhepherd's crook.
A large piece, powdered with fleurs-de-lys, with a male figure kneel-
ing in the centre, and a coat of arms, the firft and fourth quarters with
fleurs-de-lys, and the fecond and third with a pike holding a purfe in its
mouth.

ZURICH.
MUSEUM
OF ANTI-
QUARIAN
SOCIETY.

Zurich.
In private Collection. The fmall piece of TEfculapius and Hygeia. zurich.
Caft defcribed above, p. 5, No. 17.
Alfo a diptych of a Roman Conful, hitherto undefcribed (mentioned
to me by Dr. Keller).

The Treafuries of the Cathedrals of Chur and St. Maurice in the
Vallais contain carved ivories, as I learn from Dr. Keller of Zurich.