Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, inserted into a pax (baiser de paix; plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, inserted into a pax (baiser de paix; plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, inserted into a pax (baiser de paix; plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal and rock crystal (?)

Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower; throne decorated with arches; cloth of honour.

Steyaert 1994: Paris or Liège, 1st half of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy.

Provenance
Collection of Thomas Flannery, Winnetka, Illinois: Flannery sale, Sotheby's, London, 1-2 December 1983, lot 26.

Bibliography
J. W. Steyaert, Late Gothic Sculpture: The Burgundian Netherlands, exhibition catalogue, Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1994, fig. 96c.

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