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Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.ville-abbeville.fr

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Abbeville, Musée Boucher-de-Perthes

Inv. 1891.7.0.7 (unlocated)

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 68mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.

Koechlin Number: 0898

Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved.

Object Condition
Upper part of the piece broken.

Provenance
Found buried in Abbeville in 1853 or 1855 while digging the ponds at the Marcadé gate in Abbeville, one metre deep.

Bibliography
E. Delignières, Catalogue du Musée d'Abbeville et du Ponthieu (Paris, 1902), no. 853.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 333; II, no. 898.

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