Crucifixion with thieves; swooning Virgin supported by saint John the Evangelist and one of the Holy Women; soldier on horseback; onlookers; saint Mary Magdalene embracing the foot of the cross.
Crosshatched background.
Angels in the spandrels.
Gatty 1883: German, 16th-17th century.
London 1923: French or Flemish?, late 15th-early 16th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 15th century.
Liverpool Ivories 1954: French, late 15th century.
Gibson 1994 and Museum's opinion 2010: post-1500, modern?
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy on the front.Painted foliage on the back. Vertical incision in the centre.
Reverse
Painted foliage.
Object Condition
Missing: handle at the back.
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. 66.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 175, no. 26.
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 74.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 171.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 333; II, no. 905.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 45.
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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