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

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Ivory

Height: 108mm

Noli me tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); Christ holding a spade; kneeling Mary Magdalene; ointment pot; wattled fence; trees; flowers.
Crosshatched background.

Koechlin Number: 0917bis

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved.

Provenance
Collection of Prof. Robert Forrer, Strasbourg (in 1924).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 333; II, no. 917bis.

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