Gothic Ivories Project | Pax (baiser de paix) (Back)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Ecouen, Musée national de la Renaissance; on deposit from Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

ECl. 11319

Ivory

Height: 120mm
Width: 73mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; skull of Adam at the foot of the cross.
Crosshatched background.

Museum's opinion 2015: 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost. Trace of wax.

Object Condition
Missing: handle.

Comments
This panel was on the back of a mirror (Cl. 234). It was detached from it in 1886 and given its current museum number.

Provenance
[information not yet communicated]

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