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Updated: May 5, 2025
There is one fine Anglo-Saxon set of draughts in which the white pieces are of walrus ivory, and the black pieces, of genuine jet. Paxes, which were passed about in church for the Kiss of Peace, were sometimes made of ivory. There are few remains of early Spanish ivory sculpture.
For the same Pope Valerio made some most beautiful paxes, and a divine cross of crystal, and likewise dies for striking medals, containing the portrait of Pope Clement, with very beautiful reverses; and through him that art produced in his day many masters, both from Milan and from other parts, who had grown to such a number before the sack of Rome, that it was a marvel.
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