Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled pax (baiser de paix), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Gabled pax (baiser de paix), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Gabled pax (baiser de paix), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Rouen, Musée Départemental des Antiquités de la Seine-Maritime

Inv. 862

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 7mm

Man of Sorrows; risen Christ standing in the tomb and holding the cross; Christ displaying his wounds.
Crosshatched background. Twisted columns.
Inscription: 'ECCE HOMO'.

Koechlin Number: 0916bis

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 15th or early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Hole in the gable.

Provenance
Collection of L. F. Billiard. Acquired by the museum in 1853.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 333; II, no. 916bis.
Joconde, catalogue collectif des collections des musées de France: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/fr/pres.htm
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 143.

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