Gatty 1883: French, 14th century.
London 1923: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Liverpool Ivories 1954: French, mid-14th century.
Gibson 1994 and Museum's opinion 2010: mid 14th century, Rhine or Meuse.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Three original hinges.
Polychromy - Gilding
No trace.
Reverse
Liverpool Ivories 1954: inscriptions 'Ludovicus', and 'omnis [h]omo debet rem[?]' and dates both inscriptions to 14th-15th century (?).Gibson 1994: reads 'omnis? amo debet? removi' and dates the inscriptions to 16th century (?). Drawings of a face and a woman.
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. 21, p. 176.
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 50.
P. Nelson, 'The Mediaeval Ivories in the Liverpool Museum II', in The Connoisseur 30 (1911), no. XII.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 111.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 170, 175, 210, 325; II, no. 293; III, pl. LXXVI.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 36.
Medieval and Early Renaissance Treasures in the North West, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1976, no. 119.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), no. 29.
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