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

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Utrecht, Catharijneconvent

Inv. RMCC b169a

Ivory;wood (later base)

Height: 128mm
Width: 76mm
Weight: 126g

Saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel.
Crosshatched background. Columns.

Scholten 2004: Northern Netherlands, c. 1500.
Museum's opinion 2010: France or Northern Spain, 2nd half of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Provenance
Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 19 December 1994, lot 327; bought from Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 6 January 1995.

Bibliography
F. Scholten, 'Nederlandse ivoren pax uit de late middeleeuwen', in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 52 (2004), no. 1, pp. 3-23 (pp. 14-15, fig. 15).

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