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Pax (baiser de paix) (Detail)

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Front

Back

Detail

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Subject
Religious.

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Langres, Saint-Mammès Cathedral Treasury (property of the French State)

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Ivory;brass (later handle)

Height: 145mm
Width: 105mm

Crucifixion with thieves; crowd of onlookers and soldiers; Virgin supported by saint John the Evangelist and Holy Women; soldiers in armour; saint Mary Magdalene embracing the foot of the cross; titulus.
Crosshatched background; foliated border; decorated columns.

Base objets mobiliers de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de Champagne-Ardenne 2012: 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved and smooth. The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been replaced with a later metal handle.

Object Condition
Crack at the top of the piece, above Christ's left arm.

Provenance
From Marac (canton of Langres), parish church of Saint-Léger.

Bibliography
Base objets mobiliers de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de Champagne-Ardenne: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/champagne-ardenne/objets-mobiliers/haute-marne/cathedrale-langres/HTML5/home-tt.html [accessed August 2012].

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