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XVII.—On a Morse Ivory Tau Cross Head of English work of the Eleventh Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
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The beautiful ivory carving exhibited by the Rev. A. H. Williams (Plate XXVII.) is not only an object of great rarity, but is of exceptional interest from the fact that it is an altogether admirable example of the work of our Saxon ancestors before the Norman Conquest. Although from age and long burial much of its original glory has vanished, enough remains to excite admiration at the cunning skill of the craftsman who fashioned it.
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page 408 note a Schaepkens, , Trésors de I'art ancien en Belgique, pl. 8.Google Scholar This piece is there described, as well as in Westwood's Fictile Ivories, as being in the collection of Baron de Crassier, but it seems certain that it is either the piece now at St. Petersburg or the tau in the South Kensington Museum (fig. 5) (No. 371.71). Both seem identical in details. Compare the description in Darcel, and Basilewsky, , La Collection Basilewsky, No. 86,Google Scholar and Maskell's, Description of the Ivories, &c. 134Google Scholar.
page 409 note a See British Museum Guide to Early Christian and Byzantine Antiquities, 1903, p. 96 and fig. 68.Google Scholar
page 410 note a Vol. iv. (1847), 816.
page 410 note b Archaeologia, li.