Death of the Virgin (Dormition); apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm and saint Peter holding a key; Christ holding the soul of the Virgin.
Pierced trefoils; border of dentils.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Object Condition
Broken around the hinges.
Provenance
Found at Sandwich. Collection of W. H. Rolfe of Sandwich. 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
The Publications of the Antiquarian Etching Club V (1854), pl. 46.
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 60.
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 (pl. XLVIII, reproducing the Etching Club drawing).
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