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Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 80mm

Annunciation; vase of lilies; scroll and sceptre.
Crosshatched background; roped border.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Probably Northern France, c. 1450

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Handle.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the piece.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (in 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.130, p. 35.

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