And here is another medieval carved narwhal tusk in the V&A! Both tusks from same workshop, poss orig used as pair: http://m.vam.ac.uk/collections/item/O96516/ceremonial-staff-unknown/ …pic.twitter.com/6ryzOrxYPe
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And here is another medieval carved narwhal tusk in the V&A! Both tusks from same workshop, poss orig used as pair: http://m.vam.ac.uk/collections/item/O96516/ceremonial-staff-unknown/ …pic.twitter.com/6ryzOrxYPe
An article from 1994 on the discovery and sale of the medieval narwhal tusk now at Liverpool:http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/for-sale-a-piece-of-medieval-magic-its-not-often-that-the-horn-of-a-unicorn-comes-up-for-auction-1420976.html …
Beautiful! Love the dragon 
Isn't it great! :D
Lovely. Thank you for sharing. Nice parallels in inhabited vine scrolls in contemporary architectural sculpture at Lincoln and in its diocese.
Indeed! Fascinating that we have two surviving too!
Oh my goodness! This is one of the best things I never knew existed.
I know! Isn't it fab! :-)
Yes! Very!
The pictures you post show how wrong my idea of ancient times were,I wrongly imagine they were unskilled,when really they were the opposite.
It's a common misconception! There really are some astonishing works of beauty from the medieval era :)
There truly are, especially that Narwhal tusk, the carvings on that are mind blowing. Thanks for educating me again.
So many questions about how people conceptualise things. Who looks at a dead fish and thinks "That bit would make a wonderful liturgical candle holder."?
Oh, what a wonderful object!
This is stunning. Thank you so much for posting it.
Oh please, everybody knows this is a magic wand but you just haven't managed to activate it yet ;)
this is so beautiful.
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