Gothic Ivories Project | Pax, 1 register, 1 arch across (baiser de paix) (Back)

Pax, 1 register, 1 arch across (baiser de paix) (Back)

Pax, 1 register, 1 arch across (baiser de paix) (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

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Riom, Musée Mandet

C.R. 79-4-2

Ivory

Height: 135mm
Width: 90mm
Depth: 4-15mm

Crucifixion; Virgin supported by one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker holding a scroll; angel.
Blind arches and crosshatched background in the spandrels. Diapered background.

Museum's opinion 2012: 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Comments
The panel is of uneven thickness: it is thinner on the sides (4 mm) than at the top (10mm) or bottom (15mm).

Provenance
Collection of Édouard Richard (b. 1909, d. 1986) and his wife Marie-Joseph Richard (b. 1915, d. 1997); their gift to the Museum in 1983.

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