Gothic Ivories Project | Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Religious.

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Ivory

Height: 115 mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower; throne; crown.
Columns; roped border; foliated decoration.

Koechlin Number: 0922

Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th or early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved.

Provenance
Formerly collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris (not in his May 1908 sale, but sold by 1924).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 334; II, no. 922.

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