Gothic Ivories Project | Pax with truncated gable (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax with truncated gable (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax with truncated gable (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Ivory

Baptism of Christ by saint John the Baptist; blessing gesture; angel holding Christ's tunic; head of God the Father in clouds; baptismal font.
Crosshatched background; roped border; twisted columns.

Unpublished.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 1st third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved.

Object Condition
Missing: upper left border.
Central hole in the upper part of the pax.

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