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Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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

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Beaune, Hospices civils de Beaune

87 GHD 870

Ivory

Height: 108mm
Width: 101mm
Depth: 25mm

Flagellation; whips.
Crosshatched background.


Koechlin Number: 0915

Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th or early 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: green, gold.

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

Provenance
Collection of Albert Humbert, Dijon architect: his bequest in 1892.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 333; II, no. 915.
Palissy database: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/dapapal_fr [accessed September 2009].
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 139.


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