Cutler AnthonyABAA
The Craft of Ivory : sources techniques and uses in the Mediterranean world A.D. 200-1400
1985158448Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 1985. Softcover. Fine internally; small ding to lower right corner of front cover; art museum ex-lib. copy with back bar code blind stamp on title page. White wraps with bw image and cranberry lettering. 58 pp. with 49 bw figures. From the Preface: "Dumbarton Oaks possesses a small but first-rate collection of ivories carved in the Mediterranean area between the second and fifteenth centuries of our era. . . . The aim of this booklet is . . . to examine the nature of ivory and to consider it as both a substance displaying certain consistent characteristics and as a material of varying availability treated by craftsmen in various and peculiar ways." Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection Publications no. 8. Dumbarton Oaks, Research Library and Collection paperback books
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis200,00 $US≈ 169,22 €
