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Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)
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Fécamp, Palais Bénédictine

Inv. A-1-b28

Ivory

Height: 93mm
Width: 64mm
Depth: 11mm (max)

Standing Christ holding a sceptre or cross (?). Inscription: 'ECCE HOMO'.
Twisted columns; scalloped arch; foliated decoration.

Museum's opinion 2013: 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Missing: part of the left side; end of the sceptre or cross held by Christ. Right hand side column chipped.

Provenance
In the collection assembled by Alexandre Le Grand for the museum by 1888. Described in a pre-1888 handwritten inventory kept at the museum as: 'Un Intrument de Paix en ivoire vénitien: Ecce Homo. XVIe siècle.' (p. 6).

Bibliography
Distillerie de la liqueur Bénédictine de l'Abbaye de Fécamp. Musée. Catalogue illustré de nombreux dessins de H. Scott gravés par Bellanger... (Fécamp, 1888), p. 27, no. 53 and pl. XII.


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© Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp.

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