Искусства и ремесла Средневековья

Ca1тing in Wood iand I vогу

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Spanish art under Oriental domination. Under one little figшe is iпscгibed Appaгitio Scholastico, and Remirus Rex under another, while а figuгe of а sculptor carving а shield, ,vith а ,vorkшan standing Ьу him, i� labelled " l\fagistro and Ridolpho his son." Few individual ivory carvers аге known Ьу nаше. А French artist, Jean Labraellier, worked in ivory for Chaгles V. of France; and in Germany it must have been quite а fashionaЫe pursuit in high lifе; the Electo1· of Saxony, August the Pious, who died in 1.586, �Nas an ivory worker, and theгe are two snuff-boxes sho,vn as the ,voгk of Peter the Gгeat. The Electoг of Branden­ burgh анd MaximШan of Bavaria both carved ivory for their o,vn recr�ation. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there wеге many well-knowп sculptors wlю turвed their attention to ivory; but our researches Ьагdlу carry us so far. For а moment, however, I must touch on the subject of Ьilliard balls. It may interest our readers to kno,v that the size of the little Ыасk dot on а ball indicates its quality. The nerve which runs through а tusk, is visiЫe at this point, and а ball made from tlle ivory near tlю end of the tusk, wheгe the nerve Ьаs tapered off to its smallest proportions, is the best ball. The finest balls of all are made fгom slюrt stubby tusks, which are kno,vn as " ball teeth." The ivory in these is closer in grain, and they аге much more expensive. Very laгge tusks are more liaЫe to have coarse grained bony spaces near the centre.