Inv. I. 4858
Annunciation with angel coming from the right; Virgin kneeling in prayer at a prie-Dieu; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit; open book; sceptre; sun.
Crosshatched background; foliated decoration in the spandrels; columns.
Mingorance Serrano 2013: Flanders, end of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding on the background at the upper part, certainly later.
Reverse
Curved. The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost. Some cracks on surface.
Object Condition
Missing: central part of the upper edge.
Provenance
The handwritten Libro de Adquisiciones of the Institute (vol. IV, no. 172) records that a pax and a lead medal were acquired from Don Teófilo Torres Martín in 1929 for 374 pesetas but, as three paxes feature in the collection, in the absence of a description of the pax in the entry, it is impossible to know which one was bought on this occasion.
Bibliography
L. Mingorance Serrano, Los Marfiles Góticos del Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, unpublished MA dissertation, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), 2013, no. 8.
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