Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket; rugged cross.
Register 2: Entombment with the Virgin (anointing of Christ's body).
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Gatty 1883: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: part of the background in the lower register. Part of the background seems also to have been glued back into place in the upper register to the right.
Deep vertical cracks and signs of repair.
Provenance
Joseph Mayer collection: given by Joseph Mayer to the town of Liverpool in 1867; lost in May 1941 when the Museum was hit by an incendiary bomb.
Bibliography
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 172, no. 16.
C. T. Gatty, Catalogue of Mediaeval and Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 63.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 177; II, no. 339bis.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), pp. xxi-xxii, 110.
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