Register 1: Christ displaying his wounds; Christ in Glory; angels holding Instruments of the Passion.
Register 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; standing male donor; standing female donor.
Register 3: seated Virgin and Child; saint Peter holding a key; saint Paul holding a sword.
PIerced quatrefoils and pierced sextfoils in the spandrels.
Henszlmann 1853: England, 15th century.
Westwood 1876 and Gatty 1883: England, 13th century.
London 1923: England, 1st half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 13th century.
Natanson 1951: England, c. 1300.
Liverpool Ivories 1954: England, late 13th century.
Gibson 1994 and Museum's opinion 2010: England, 1280-1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Missing hinges (originally probably ring hinges).
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of red (lower edge) and green (background).
Object Condition
Missing: possibly pinnacles; colonnettes and tracery damaged on the lower left part. Hole at the top.
Provenance
Gabor Fejérváry collection; inherited at his death in 1851 by his nephew Ferenc Pulszky; sold to Joseph Mayer in 1855; given by Joseph Mayer to the town of Liverpool in 1867.
Bibliography
E. Henszlmann, Catalogue of the Collection of the Monuments of Art formed by the late Gabriel Fejérváry of Hungary exhibited at the Museum of the Archeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1853), no. 675.
F. Pulszky, Catalogue of the Fejérváry Ivories in the Museum of Joseph Mayer, Esq., F.S.A. (Liverpool, 1856), no. 47.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 172.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 393 (`73.139).
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 45, pl. IX.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 102, pl. XXXI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 90, n. 3; II, no. 60; III, pl. XX.
M. Longhurst, English Ivories (London, 1926), no. LIV.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927-1929), pl. II.
J. Natanson, Gothic Ivories of the 13th and 14th Centuries (London, 1951), p. 34, fig. 22.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 32.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 29 and pp. 90-93.
Medieval and Early Renaissance Treasures in the North West, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1976, no. 114.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), no. 27.
Tristram Hunt and Victoria Whitfield, Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on, exhibition catalogue, London and Manchester Art gallery, 2007-2008, p. 88.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 52.
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