Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Sun and Moon on either side of the cross under the arch; rugged cross.
Crosshatched background; pointed trefoils; tracery.
Meyrick 1836: 'from the time of Edward IV' (1442-1483).
Dalton 1909: North French or Flemish, 15th century.
Randall 1994: Dutch (Utrecht), 1440-1470.
Museum's opinion 2011: French or South Netherlandish, 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Black or dark green dots around the rim.
Reverse
The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost. Red printed exhibition label: 'Exhibition of Art Treasures, 1857. Gooderich Court'. Printed label: '58'. Red wax, remains of a seal.
Object Condition
Cracked: top right. Two holes.
Provenance
Collection of Francis Douce (b. 1757, d. 1834); collection of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (b. 1783, d. 1848), by bequest, 1834; collection of Major-General Augustus Meyrick, by bequest, 1848 (exhibited at the Exhibition of Art Treasures in Manchester in 1857); British Museum, London, by donation, 1878.
Bibliography
S. R. Meyrick, 'The Doucean Museum', in Gentlemen's Magazine (April 1836), no. 47.
Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, collected at Manchester in 1857, exhibition catalogue, 1857.
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 319.
R. H. Randall, 'Dutch Ivories of the Fifteenth Century', in Beelden in de late Middeleeuwen en Renaissance, ed. by R. Falkenburg et al., Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (Zwolle, 1994), pp. 126-139 (pp. 131-132, fig. 6).
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