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Pax with truncated gable (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax with truncated gable (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.musees.angers.fr

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Angers, Musée des Beaux-Arts

MA GF 2110

Ivory

Height: 123mm
Width: 95mm

Annunciation with angel coming from the right; dove of the Holy Spirit; clouds; sceptre.
Scroll with engraved inscription: 'AVE GRACIA PLENA DNS TECUM'.
Columns; crosshatched background.

Koechlin Number: 0909

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

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved.

Object Condition
Large hole in the centre.

Provenance
Found in Champtocé in 1858.

Bibliography
V. Godard-Faultrier, Musée des Antiquités d'Angers (Angers, 1868), no. 2110, p. 347.
Exposition rétrospective, exhibition catalogue, Tours, 1890, pl. XXXVII, no. 7.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 334; II, no. 909; III, pl. CLXII.

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