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The 172 Artworks of media Ivory and containing the word john jordan, ivory, 2000

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Leonhard Kern - Adam and Eve (The Fall)Adam and Eve (The Fall)Leonhard Kern

This group of two figures, carved with virtuoso skill from a single piece of ivory, depicts the Fall of Adam and Eve. In contrast to conventional treatments of the theme, this one dispenses with both the serpent and the tree of knowledge. Instead we see a tortoise and a greyhound, symbols of marital...

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Manolis Venios - KemencheKemencheManolis Venios

The master luthier (a maker of lutes and other stringed instruments) who created this kemenche rendered birds, scrolling foliage, and stars along the head, edges and back of this instrument, using ivory set in tortoiseshell with a gold leaf backing. He carved the tuning keys from ivory and capped th...

Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, United States)
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Alice Beckington - Richard Vaughn LewisRichard Vaughn LewisAlice Beckington

The sitter (1841-1922) founded Lewis & Conger, a housewares department store in New York City.

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Peter Adolf Hall - The Painter Louis Joseph Maurice (1730–1820)The Painter Louis Joseph Maurice (1730–1820)Peter Adolf Hall

The miniature painter Hall was among a number of Swedish portraitists who enjoyed huge popularity in France, showing at the official Salon and patronized by the cultural and political elite. The sitter, Maurice, began as a lawyer before himself becoming a portraitist who counted Empress Catherine th...

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