Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); saint Christopher carrying Christ across the river; saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel; satchel decorated with a scallop shell.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Henszlmann 1853: German, early 15th century.
Westwood 1876 and Gatty 1883: French, 15th century.
London 1923: French, 14th century.
Liverpool Ivories 1954: French, c. 1400.
Gibson 1994 and Museum's opinion 2010: Flemish?, c. 1390-1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two missing hinges.
Object Condition
Borders broken and worn. Vertical crack.
Missing: part of saint John the Baptist.
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
E. Henszlmann, Catalogue of the Collection of the Monuments of Art formed by the late Gabriel Fejérváry of Hungary exhibited at the Museum of the Archeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1853), no. 676.
F. Pulszky, Catalogue of the Fejérváry Ivories in the Museum of Joseph Mayer, Esq., F.S.A. (Liverpool, 1856), no. 57.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 490 ('55.41).
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 53.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 132.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 43.
Medieval and Early Renaissance Treasures in the North West, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1976, no. 122.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), no. 36.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 590-1, in relation to no. 177.
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