Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon; rugged cross.
Pointed trefoils; incised trefoils.
Gatty 1883: French, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of red and gold (Gatty).
Object Condition
Vertical crack to the right of saint John the Evangelist.
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
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 172, no. 15.
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 64.
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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