The 184 Artworks of media Ivory and containing the word richard cosway, ivory, 1775

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...

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This guitar is remarkable for its elaborate decoration, especially the fingerboard with its mother of pearl engraved and colored panels. The top seven sections of the fingerboard depict famous buildings and monuments, including the Palais du Luxembourg, Porte Saint-Denis, and the Ecole Militaire, wh...

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

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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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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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The body of this beautiful diadem consists of two orchids in horn and one in ivory, while a small drop-shaped topaz appears in the centre of the ivory flower. The three-pronged comb is also in horn and connected to the diadem by a gold hinge.Lalique first exhibited a bracelet made of horn at the 189...

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Mosnier was a favored portraitist at the French court, who worked both on ivory and on canvas; after the French Revolution, he led an itinerant life, moving first to London and then Hamburg and St. Petersburg. The costume in which Louis XVI is represented is identical to that worn in a miniature of ...

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