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Ogee-shaped pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

Ogee-shaped pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Religious. Saints.

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Ivory

Height: 125mm

Martyrdom of saint Sebastian; saint Sebastian tied to a tree; arrows; archers; bows.
Columns; foliated decoration.

Koechlin Number: 0943

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

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: upper left corner.

Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris, but did not feature at his sale in May 1908.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 335; II, no. 943.

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