Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane). Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); soldiers with winged hats and clubs.
Register 3: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist. Deposition. Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Beaded border on one side.
Gatty 1883: French, 14th century.
London 1923: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Liverpool Ivories 1954: French, 2nd half of 14th century.
Gibson 1994 and Museum's opinion 2010: French, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two hinges to the right.
Comments
Related to the Vich diptych (now Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, 71.179), according to Koechlin 1924.
Provenance
Joseph Mayer collection (by 1855): 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. 18, p. 173.
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 48.
P. Nelson, 'The Mediaeval Ivories in the Liverpool Museum II', in The Connoisseur 30 (1911), pp. 14-18 (no. XVI).
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 113, pl. XXXVI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 295; II, no. 815.
Gothic Art in Europe, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1936, no. 114.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 39.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), in relation to no. 299.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), no. 32.
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