Another set of pieces belonging to a game are the label-shaped ivories (No.
Then Mirza Nuruddin made a deft twist of the cup and the ivories dropped on the carpet in a neat row of three sixes.
Mirza Nuruddin studied the three ivories indifferently as he drew on his hookah.
One of the earliest ivories of the Byzantine type is the diptych at Monza, showing a princess and a boy, supposed to be Galla Placidia and Valentinian III.
So many fragments of ivories have been discovered in recent explorations in Egypt that it is most likely that Alexandria, a fit centre for receiving the material, was also its centre of distribution.
A fragment, long ago figured by Semper, showing a classical design of a nereid on a sea-horse, is so like the designs found on many ivories discovered in Egypt that we may probably assign it to Alexandria.
The description and details of the most important ivories which have reached us of this period confirms this opinion.
The former approached in a straggling line of asses, and about fifty camels laiden with cows' hides, ivories and one Abyssinian slave-girl.
It has been suggested that some of the carved ivories may have been used to ornament the coffers.
We are confirmed in this idea by the fact that none of these ivories are unique or isolated works of art.
These chiselled, enamelled, and gilded ivories must have been set in frames of cedar or cypress.
In several cases the remains of gold ornaments, of sculptured ivories and engraved shells, were discovered.
The ivories of the Assyrians are inferior both to their metal castings and to their bas-reliefs.
The Lotus is sometimes engraved on a seal, always in the hand of a god, and with other Egyptian elements it is frequently found on the ivories and bronze dishes from Nimrud.
What strikes one instantly, and with overwhelming force, about the little group of carved ivories in Pl.
The elephants used to destroy many of us on account of our hunting them for their ivories and sorivellos; but Allah hath preserved thee from them, and thou hast profited us by the heaps to which thou hast led us.
Besides the diptychs ancient Greek and Roman ivories before the recognition of Christianity are comparatively small in number and are mostly in the great museums of the Vatican, Naples, the British Museum, the Louvre and the Cluny Museum.
A brief reference to the well-known delightful netsukes and the characteristic inlaid work must suffice here for the ivories of Japan (see JAPAN: Art).
The few examples we possess of Christian ivories previous to the time of Constantine are not of great importance from the point of view of the history of art.
But no other collection in the world contains such an interesting collection of ancient Assyrian ivories as that in the British Museum.
Oldfield, Catalogue of Fictile Ivoriessold by the Arundel Society (1855); A.
Another series of interest is that of the croziers or pastoral staves, the development of which the student of ivories will be careful to study in connexion with the earlier ones and the tau-headed staves.
Then, again, we are met by the question how far these ivories are connected with Byzantine art; whether they were made in the West by immigrant Greeks, or indigenous works, or purely imported productions.
Cyd, whose ivories were now distinctly visible in the gloom of the night.
Even the brilliantivories of the ever-mirthful Cyd were veiled in darkness beneath his ebony cheek.
Some of the shorter poems are, to use a phrase made classical by Mr. Pater, 'little carved ivories of speech.
The shops are attractive and we find and purchase some ivories and, if one cares for the likeness of Shah Jehan, they will be able to purchase paintings in miniature of him and his wife, done on porcelain.
The collection of carved ivories was surpassingly beautiful, as were also articles of jade.
Buddha was most conspicuous on the altar of the temple, carved woods and ivories surrounding the image, where later a dance was performed; but we were too unholy to be permitted to remain and witness it.
The hands which carved some of the ivories found in the earliest Artemisium at Ephesus worked on artistic traditions derived ultimately from the Tigris.
When the choir was renovated, after 1100, some of its sculptures were modeled on certain Byzantine ivories that had been brought as gifts to Abbess Cécile by her crusading brother.
The Romanesque masters copied the ivories and miniatures of the Eastern Greeks till, in time, they turned to nature for their models, and then their work took on new life and evolved into the glory which is Gothic sculpture.
Then Christian influence began, and, of course, that would leave a small debatable ground, particularly among the ivories for instance, which we must settle according to circumstances?
You are perhaps acquainted with the ivories which have been recently purchased there?
Throwing six more down on the "Don't Pass" side, I rattled the ivories in my left hand.
The ivories had a way to go before they reached us.
It puzzled Sophy to witness this extraordinary enthusiasm and then to recall the cold fact that, on her return to "Heidelberg," her aunt's interest in these ivories seemed to wane and disappear.
Several smallivories in the same case should be observed carefully.
Magnificent collection of ivories and ebonies, all of which the spectator should examine in detail.
Many of these same mothers have been persuaded by the missionaries to cease the heathenish practice of blackening their teeth, and so appear at the meeting in even rows of becoming white ivories like their unmarried sisters.
The wonder was cabinet after cabinet filled with jades and bronzes and carved ivories and Babylonian tablets and-- But I couldn't begin to tell you!
Oh, and that is when he asked me, too, how I came to know so much about jades and ivories and Egyptian antiques.
After luncheon he showed them to me--some of them: such marvelous bronzes and carved ivories and Babylonian tablets.
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