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Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 6455

Ivory;wood (modern handle)

Height: 116mm
Width: 83mm
Depth: 45mm

Saint John the Baptist holding the lamb of God (agnus dei); standing Virgin and Child (Vierge Glorieuse); Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; angel crowning the Virgin; saint Barbara with tower and martyr's palm; brooch.
Crosshatched background. Foliated border.
Carved inscription: 'hanry. Lerdenoi'.


Koechlin Number: 0932

Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th century or early 16th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: North-East of France, 2nd quarter of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved and smooth. Original handle replaced by a wooden one.

Object Condition
Small chips to the edges.

Provenance
Probably originally commissioned by a man called Henri lerdenoi (see inscription). From the church of Saponay (Aisne). Collection of Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Paris; gift of Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, 1911.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 13, 21, 334, 336; II, no. 932; III, pl. CLXI.
C. Vivet, 'Les Baisers de Paix en ivoire de la fin du Moyen Âge dans les collections publiques françaises', in Mémoires de l'École du Louvre, 1993, no. 45.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 244.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 603-4, in relation to no. 183.


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