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Pax (baiser de paix), 1 ogee arch across (Back)

Pax (baiser de paix), 1 ogee arch across (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts

25.91

Ivory

Height: 121mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 10mm

Saint John the Baptist; standing Virgin and Child; saint Catherine of Alexandria; broken wheel; martyr's palm.
Crosshatched background.

Koch 1958: Utrecht.
Randall 1993: Dutch (Utrecht), 1440-1470.
Detroit 1997: North Netherlandish (Utrecht), ca. 1450-1475.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost.

Provenance
Purchased from Daniel Z. Noorian, New York, with funds from Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass.

Bibliography
R. Koch, 'An Ivory Diptych from the Waning Middle Ages', in Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, XVII, no. 2 (1958), pp. 55-64 (p. 59, fig. 4).
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 240 (in relation to no. 363).
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 167, pl. 15.
R. H. Randall, 'Dutch Ivories of the Fifteenth Century', in Beelden in de late Middeleeuwen en Renaissance, ed. by R. Falkenburg et al., Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (1994), pp. 126-139 (p. 126, fig. 1 and pp. 128-129).
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 72.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 603-4, in relation to no. 183.


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