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Pax (baiser de paix) (Back)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Back)
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Subject
Religious. Passion.

Repository Institution
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Nashville, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery

1976.676P

Ivory

Height: 134mm
Width: 90mm
Depth: 20mm (excluding handle); 35mm (including handle)
Weight: 122g

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Crosshatched background.

Randall 1993: Flemish, 4th quarter of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Possible traces of polychromy (red) found on the background.

Reverse
Brass handle with incised flower decoration set in slot in the lower half that presumably replaced the ivory original affixed with two rivets that pass through the body of Christ, and a third at the base of the Cross.
Carved inscription at bottom in textura: 'Heer p orthen/ten bos'; accession numbers; dealer's label.

Object Condition
Small crack and adjacent minor losses parallel to base of cross.

Provenance
Bought from Mathias Komor, New York in 1979.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 173.


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