Tag Archives: ivory

Ivory book cover from the Fejervary collection

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Geoff Barker

This photograph shows the front of a German book cover carved from ivory in the 10th century. at the time of Westwood’s publication it was… More

16th century Russo-Byzantine tablet from the Soane Museum

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Geoff Barker

This is a photograph of a 16th century Russo-Byzantine tablet once held by the Soane Museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in London. It shows the Glorification… More

Ivory diptych with scenes from the life of St Paul

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Geoff Barker

This photograph is of a leaf from a diptych carved from ivory in Italy between 400 and 600. Ivory diptychs consisted of two leaves joined… More

Psalter of Princess Melisenda

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Geoff Barker

This photograph is of the back of the cover of the Psalter of the Princess Melisenda, who was the daughter of King Baldwin of Jerusalem.… More

Ivory Plaque of Christ

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Geoff Barker

This photograph is of a plaque carved from ivory in Italy between 400 and 800, and which was in the British Museum in London. It… More

French ivory book cover of Christ

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Geoff Barker

This photograph is of a section of a book cover carved from ivory in France between 900 and 1100. It shows a large figure of… More

Cast from ivory book cover in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Geoff Barker

This photo-mechanical print is one of the 24 Woodburytypes pasted into J. O. Westwood’s 1876 publication, ‘Fictile [casts of] Ivories in the South Kensington Museum’.… More

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.