Africa and the Renaissance : art in ivory / Ezio Bassani and William B. Fagg ; edited by Susan Vogel, assisted by Carol Thompson ; with an essay by Peter Mark.

Catalog of a loan exhibition held at the Center for African Art, New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254).

Introduction: Africa and the Renaissance / Susan Vogel -- European perspections of black Africans in the Renaissance / Peter Mark -- 1. The legacy of the navigator -- 2. The Afro-Portugues Ivories -- 3. An art of stillness and beauty: The Sapi-Portuguese Ivories: Saltcellers ; Pyxes ; Spoons, forks and knife handles -- 4. Sources for the Sapi-Portugues Ivories -- 5. Sapi workshops and artists -- 6. Conclusions on the Sapi-Portuguese Ivories -- 7. The Bini-Portuguese Ivories: enter movement : The guild of ivory carvers ; Oliphants ; Salts ; Spoons -- 8. The Bini-Portuguese artists -- 9. A conjectural digression among the bronze casters -- 10. A problematic Yoruba-Portuguese Saltcellal -- 11. The Afro-Portuguese Apocrypha : An enigmatic Sapi-Portuguese oliphant ; The Kongo oliphant ; A unique Kongo knife case ; Kongo geometric motifs ; The mysterious fluted oliphants -- 12. Conclusions on the Afro-Portuguese Ivories -- Notes -- Catalogue Raisonne -- Bibliography -- Photograph Credits.