Pietà. Crosshatched background. Ogee arch; columns.
Inscription along the lower edge: 'DA PACEM D[OMI]NE IN DIEBUS NOSTRIS' ('Give peace in our time O Lord').
Westwood 1876: Germany(?), 17th century.
Gatty 1883: Germany, 16th-17th century.
London 1923: France or Flanders?, late 15th-early 16th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 15th or early 16th century.
Liverpool Ivories 1954: French or Flemish, c. 1500.
Gibson 1994 and Museum's opinion 2010: post-1500, 19th century?
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
The ivory handle remains at the back (Westwood).
Object Condition
Broken foliate decoration along the upper edge.
Provenance
Gabor Fejérváry collection; inherited at his death in 1851 by his nephew Ferenc Pulszky; sold to Joseph Mayer in 1855; given by Joseph Mayer to the town of Liverpool in 1867.
Bibliography
F. Pulszky, Catalogue of the Fejérváry Ivories in the Museum of Joseph Mayer, Esq., F.S.A. (Liverpool, 1856), no. 67.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 175, no. 28.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 776 ('54.83).
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 78.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 173.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 333, 347; II, no. 919; III, pl. CLXI.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 46.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), p. 114.
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