Gothic Ivories Project | Rounded-top panel (possibly a pax), 1 register, 2 arches across (baiser de paix?) (Front)

Rounded-top panel (possibly a pax), 1 register, 2 arches across (baiser de paix?) (Front)

Rounded-top panel (possibly a pax), 1 register, 2 arches across (baiser de paix?) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

Repository Institution
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

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Liverpool, National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery

M 8069

Ivory

Height: 84mm
Width: 63mm

Nativity; midwife bathing Christ.
Angels in the spandrels, holding a crown above a fleur-de-lys.
Columns with foliated decoration; roped border.

Gatty 1883: German, 15th-16th century.
London 1923: probably Flemish, end of 15th century.
Liverpool Ivories 1954 and Museum's opinion 2010: French or Flemish, early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (Gatty).

Provenance
Joseph Mayer collection: given by Joseph Mayer to the town of Liverpool in 1867.

Bibliography
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 76.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 163.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 47.

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