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Pax with truncated gable (baiser de paix) (Back)

Pax with truncated gable (baiser de paix) (Back)
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Front

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Norwich, Norwich Castle Museum

1894.76.281

Ivory

Height: 105 mm
Width: 70 mm

Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit; vase of lilies.Incised inscription on the scroll: 'AVE GRATIA PLENA DNS TECVM'.
Crosshatched background.

London 1923: French (or Flemish?), late 15th or early 16th century.
Paul Williamson, unpublished opinion, 2011: Netherlands, 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Ivory handle set into a chamfered slot. Curved.

Provenance
R. Fitch collection: given by him to the Museum in 1894.

Bibliography
N. Layard, 'Notes on Some English Paxes including an example urgently found in Ipswich', in Archaeological Journal, 2nd series, 2 (June 1904), p. 130 (D.126).
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 169, pl. XLIII.


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