Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ half-kneeling in the Virgin's lap; Christ in long robe; bench.
Gatty 1883: English, 13th century.
London 1923: French, mid 14th century
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Liverpool Ivories 1954: French, mid 14th century.
Gibson 1994 and Museum's opinion 2010: French, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of red in the veil.Traces of polychromy on the throne (Gatty, 1883).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Small hole in the veil, possibly originally for attachment of a later filet or a crown.
Cracked.
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. 25, p. 174.
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 44, pl. VIII.
P. Nelson, 'The Mediaeval Ivories in the Liverpool Museum II', in The Connoisseur 30 (1911), p. 17, no. 9.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 94.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 238; II, no. 636.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 37.
Medieval and Early Renaissance Treasures in the North West, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1976, no. 118.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), no. 39.
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