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

Virgin and Child in glory; Virgin as the Apocalyptic woman; Virgin in the sun; crescent moon with a face.
Roped border. Crosshatched background. Foliated decoration.

Ozenfant 1887: 16th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th century or early 16th century.
Lille 1947 and Guide 1957: 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Northern Netherlands (Utrecht?), mid 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved. 1912 inventory label. De Vicq label (no. 536). 1950s inventory label. No trace of chamfered slot for missing handle.

Object Condition
Missing: piece in the upper right on the back.

Provenance
Collection of Jules de Vicq, Lille (no. 536): given by him to the Museum in 1881. Koechlin 1924: part of the Ozenfant bequest.

Bibliography
A. Ozenfant, Catalogue de la Collection d'objets d'art et de curiosité composant le Musée Jules de Vicq (Lille, 1887), no. 62.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 334; II, no. 929.
Exposition d'art ancien, exhibition catalogue, Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, November-December 1947, no. 29.
Musée de Lille: Guide de la Section des Objets d'art (Paris, 1957), p. 19.

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