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Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)
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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 2923

Ivory

Height: 138mm
Width: 110mm

Pietà (Lamentation of the Virgin over Christ's body); pilasters.

Kube 1925: Germany, mid 15th century.
Scholten 2004: Northern Netherlands, c. 1480-1500.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: South Netherlands, 2nd half of 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the piece.
Damages to the bottom left corner.

Provenance
Collection of the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts (no. 10126), Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage in 1924.

Bibliography
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1925), no. 113.
Zapadnoevropeiskaia reznaia kost' IX-XIX vekov iz sobraniia Ermitazha: katalog vystavki, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], The State Hermitage Museum, 1973, no. 17.
Westeuropäische Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Ermitage Leningrad XI-XIX, exhibition catalogue, Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Prague and Erbach, 1974-1975, no. 6.
H. W. Hegemann, Erbach, Elfenbeinmuseum. Westeuropäische Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Eremitage (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1975), no. 45, pp. 1134-1136.
F. Scholten, 'Nederlandse ivoren pax uit de late middeleeuwen', in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 52 (2004), no. 1, pp. 3-23 (pp. 13-14, fig. 12).
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 138.


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