Gothic Ivories Project | Pax with truncated gable, 1 ogee arch across (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax with truncated gable, 1 ogee arch across (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax with truncated gable, 1 ogee arch across (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Saint-Omer, Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin

Inv. 4151

Ivory

Height: 98mm
Width: 74mm
Depth: 11mm
Weight: 80g

Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); standing Virgin and Child; saint Catherine of Alexandria with broken wheel and sword.
Decorative pattern with sets of four pierced holes in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0933

Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th or early 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: Flanders, 2nd quarter of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved. The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost.

Object Condition
Vertical crack to the left. Central hole in the upper part of the piece.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum in 1868.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 334; II, no. 933.

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