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

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
sintsalvator.be

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Bruges, Kathedraal Sint-Salvator (St Saviour's Cathedral Treasury)

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Ivory

Height: 96mm
Width: 90mm
Depth: 28mm

Virgin and Child in glory; Virgin as the Apocalyptic woman; crescent moon with a face.
Inscription: 'ave maria'.
Roped border. Crosshatched background.

Koechlin Number: 0930

Koechlin 1924: French, end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century.
Bruges 2010: North-east France and Flanders, mid to 3rd quarter of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Concave. With ivory handle (later).

Object Condition
Missing: fragment of the upper border.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 334; II, no. 930.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
S. Vandenberghe, Ivory in Bruges: Treasures from museums, churches and monasteries, exhibition catalogue, Bruges, 2010, pp. 18-19.

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