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Historical Archive: Ivory
Musée de Cluny


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priestess at altar of Cybele (Nicomachorum ivory), early 5th c., Cluny Cl.17048. This work has its own page.
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Christ, Otto II, and Theophano ivory, Italy 982-83, Cluny Cl.392, which has its own page
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12 tribes Israel/12 apostles, ivory mid 12th c., left Cluny Cl. 23892, right loan fr. SMB Byz, which have their own page
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courting couple: Tristan and Iseult with Ogrin?, ivory mirror back, Paris c.1300-1350, Cluny Cl.383
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scenes of courtly love, ivory mirror back, Paris c.1300-1350, Cluny Cl.401
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Adoration Magi and Cucifixion, ivory diptych, France c.1325-1350, Cluny Cl.15330-15331
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belt prob for Dominican monk/nun, wool and ivory, late 15th-c. north France or Flanders, Cluny Cl.11982. For details see Cluny.
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belt prob for Dominican monk/nun, St. Catherine of Siena
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belt prob for Dominican monk/nun, Holy Face