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

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front, detail)

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Subject
Religious. Heraldry.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory or bone;metal (frame)

Height: 150 mm

Pietà (Lamentation of the Virgin over Christ's body); saint John the Evangelist; male figure kneeling in donor position; coat of arms of the Saint-Yon family.
Crosshatched background; twisted columns.

Warren 2014: Flemish or French, c. 1500.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved.

Provenance
Commissioned by a member of the Saint-Yon family (coat of arms). Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 3 December 2002, lot 263. A. & E. Foster Ltd, in June 2005.

Bibliography
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, fig. 228, in relation to no. 183.

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