Courting couples (meeting of lovers); youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady holding a dog; lady crowning a youth with a chaplet; lady chucking her lover under the chin; tree.
Henszlmann 1853: 15th century.
Gatty 1883: French, 14th century.
London 1923: French, 14th century.
Liverpool Ivories 1954: French, 2nd half of 14th century.
Gibson 1994: French, 3rd quarter of the 14th century. Probably from a set of four: these would have been the centre panels, as they both have the holes for the metal handle.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Holes for metal fittings. Holes for the handle.
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. 674.
F. Pulszky, Catalogue of the Fejérváry Ivories in the Museum of Joseph Mayer, Esq., F.S.A. (Liverpool, 1856), no. 49.
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 66, pl. XI.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 140.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, no. 42.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), no. 42.
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