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Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Front

Wing, left

Wing, right

Front

Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin. Passion.

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Liverpool, National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery

M 8056

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 132mm
Width: 178mm (open)
Depth: 9mm

Wing, left
Register 1: seated Virgin and Child; throne; two angels swinging censers; two unidentified female saints (possibly including saint Clare to the left).
Register 2: Death of the Virgin (Dormition).
Wing, right
Register 1: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; hanging lamp; midwife.
Register 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist. Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).

Gatty 1883: French, 14th century.
London 1923: French, 14th century. Considers the left leaf as a later addition.
Liverpool Ivories 1954: French, later 14th century.
Gibson 1994 and Museum's opinion 2010: Flemish, 1340-1360.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Joseph Mayer collection: given by Joseph Mayer to the town of Liverpool in 1867.

Bibliography
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), no. 20, p. 173.
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 51.
P. Nelson, 'The Mediaeval Ivories in the Liverpool Museum II', in The Connoisseur 30 (1911), no. XIII.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 124.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 41.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), no. 30.


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