Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 2 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures)

Diptych, 1 register, 2 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures)

Diptych, 1 register, 2 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

To purchase an image
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

Liverpool, National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery

M 8077 (destroyed)

Ivory;metal (hinges).

Height: 95mm
Width: 79mm

Wing, left
Presentation in the Temple.
Wing, right
Crucifixion.

Gatty 1883: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Joseph Mayer collection: given by Joseph Mayer to the town of Liverpool in 1867; lost in May 1941 when the Museum was hit by an incendiary bomb.

Bibliography
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 61.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), pp. xxi-xxii, 110.

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