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Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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

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Guéret, Musée d'art et d'archéologie

2012.0.2

Ivory

Height: 115mm
Width: 70mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; skull of Adam at the foot of the cross.
Crosshatched background.

Museum's opinion 2012: France (?), 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (Christ's wound).

Reverse
The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost.
Blue and white oval label.

Object Condition
Missing: upper right and left corners, centre part of the upper border. Pierced with two holes in the upper part, one of which probably caused the pax to break vertically in two pieces which have been glued back together. Nail in Christ's hip.

Provenance
Given in 1850 by Mr Roudaire to the Museum by the Museum which was founded in 1832 by the Société des Sciences de la Creuse.


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