Christ before Pilate; soldiers with spears.
Twisted columns; roped border; foliated decoration in the spandrels; crosshatched background.
Gatty 1883: German, 16th-17th century.
London 1923: probably Flemish, end of 15th century.
Liverpool Ivories 1954: Flemish, early 16th century.
Gibson 1994 and Museum's opinion 2010: post-1500, 19th century?
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
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
F. Pulszky, Catalogue of the Fejérváry Ivories in the Museum of Joseph Mayer, Esq., F.S.A. (Liverpool, 1856), no. 68.
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 77.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 164.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 48.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), p. 114.
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