It is made of carved ivory panels, with frames of winding vines and grapevines, on a wooden frame.

"Well, it's made of ivory panels attached to a core wooden box, but these decorative bands seem to be made of bone," he said after a while.

The casket is made of carved ivory panels showing scenes from classical mythology.

The cathedra of Maximianus, bishop of Ravenna (546-556), was covered entirely with ivory panels.

Such ivory panels were used as book-covers from the 6th century, usually as the centrepiece to a surround of metalwork and gems.

Both the manuscript and the carved ivory panels from the cover are rare and important survivals from the art of this period.

Arab mosaics and inlaid ivory panels abounded through the house.

Its ivory panels, cut in delicate reliefs, must have delighted the connoisseur in him.

Sharina opened the ivory panels and held the miniature paintings of a young couple out toward her mother in the palm of her hand.

Only a few such covers have survived intact, but many of the ivory panels survive detached, where the covers have been broken up for their materials.