Inv. C 6453
Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit; vase of lilies; Virgin kneeling in prayer at a prie-Dieu; open book; ewer; bed; sceptre; cat on the lower shelf of a sideboard.
Pendants in the shape of fruits; columns.
Richter 2003: Netherlands or Rhineland, end of the 15th century.
Scholten 2004: Northern Netherlands, c. 1500.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost. Dark stains.
Object Condition
Two holes over the capitals; an iron hook at the bottom.
Provenance
Collection of Giuseppe Baslini, art dealer, Milan: Baslini sale, Genolini Sambon, Milan, November 1888, lot 76, pl. IX. Collection of Professor A. Gilbert, Paris: sale, Drouot, Paris, 29-30 November, 1 December 1927, lot 82. Bought in 1963 on the art market.
Bibliography
R. Fritz, Dortmunder Kunstbesitz II Erwerbungen 1958 - 1963; Ausstellung zum 80 jährigen Bestehen, exhibition catalogue, Dortmund, Schloss Cappenberg, April - October 1963, no. 13.
Präsent: Zur Geschichte eines Fördervereins und seines Museums in Dortmund (Dortmund, 1998), p. 36ff., no. 17.
T. Richter, Paxtafeln und Pacificalia, Studien zu Form, Ikonographie und liturgischem Gebrauch (Weimar, 2003), no. 33.
F. Scholten, 'Nederlandse ivoren pax uit de late middeleeuwen', in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 52 (2004), no. 1, pp. 3-23 (pp. 15-16, fig. 16).
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