Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); standing Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm.
Two unidentified coats of arms in the spandrels (cross and lion rampant).
Liverpool Ivories 1954: French, mid 14th century.
Gibson 1994: South German, 1350-1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Comments
The right leaf (with a Crucifixion) was in 1994 in a private collection (see Gibson 1994, pl. XXXIVb).
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of Philip Nelson by Liverpool Public Museums in 1953.
Bibliography
P. Nelson, 'A French Armorial Ivory of the Fourteenth Century', in Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 101 (1949), pp. 63-64.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 53.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbein- und Emailkunst aus der Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, ed. by H. Schnitzler et al. (Düsseldorf, 1965), no. S85.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), no. 34.
P. Rushton, 'A Liverpool Collector, Dr Philip Nelson (1872-1953)', in Apollo (January 2001), pp. 41-48.
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