Gothic Ivories Project | Pax, 1 register, 3 arches across (baiser de paix; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Pax, 1 register, 3 arches across (baiser de paix; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Pax, 1 register, 3 arches across (baiser de paix; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 84mm
Width: 54mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels; border of dentils.

Randall 1993: Mosan or Rhenish, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Ivory is rubbed and dark in colour.

Provenance
Collection of Neil F. Phillips (in 1993), New York (bought through Ronald Lee, London).

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 127.

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