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Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.pba-lille.fr

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Ivory

Height: 105mm

Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child (Anna Selbdritt); saint Anne teaching the Virgin how to read.
Crosshatched background. Foliated decoration. Roped border.

Koechlin Number: 0907

Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Said by Koechlin to have been in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille in 1924; it is however not part of the collections of this museum today.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 335; II, no. 907; III, pl. CLXII.

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