Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Death of the Virgin (Dormition): Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; apostles.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moons.
Pointed trefoils; border of dentils.

Gatty 1883: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

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. 59.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 517.
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.
P.-A. Mariaux, 'Moulage, faux et copie, Note sur l'origine d'un ivoire gothique du Musée historique de Lausanne', in Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, 53 (1996), p. 27.

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