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

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Inv. 5265

Ivory

Height: 110mm
Width: 70mm
Depth: 2-8mm (lower part thicker)

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left arm; throne.
Crosshatched background; scalloped arch.

Koechlin Number: 0924

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

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved. Some scoring.
The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the upper border; part of the lower border. Vertical crack rising from the lower edge. Lower edge chipped at the back.

Provenance
Purchased in 1885.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 334; II, no. 924.

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