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Circular lid of a pyx (Back)

Circular lid of a pyx (Back)
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Subject
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Basel, Historisches Museum Basel

1870.465.

Ivory

Height: 89mm
Depth: 6mm
Weight: 54.2g

Virgin and Child, in bust; nude Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ on right arm.
Crosshatched background. Chevron decoration on the border.


Koechlin Number: 0972

Koechlin 1924 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, end of 15th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: German (Lower Rhine) or Netherlandish, 2nd half of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gold on the incised rim.

Reverse
Back turned.

Object Condition
Drilled holes, one at the centre and one in the rim.

Provenance
Public art collection (pre 1870; mentioned in 1859 catalogue) which became part of the Historisches Museum when it opened in 1892.

Bibliography
Verzeichniss der Mittelalterlichen Sammlung in der S. Nicolaus-Capelle und dem Conciliumssaale des Basler Münsters (Basel, 1859), p. 19, no. 47.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 345; II, no. 972.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 188.


Image

© Historisches Museum Basel. Photograph Ph. Emmel.

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