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

Pax, 1 register, 1 arch across (baiser de paix) (Front)
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Religious.

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Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Dorothy Chatterton Malone in Memory of her father, Rev. Herbert I. Chatterton

50.106

Ivory

Height: 108mm
Width: 54mm
Depth: 10mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.

Randall 1993: French (Paris?), 1370-1380.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Smooth and slightly curved. Ink inscription: '443'.The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost.

Object Condition
Possibly trimmed later along the sides and top of the trefoil arch to fit into a frame (Randall 1993).

Provenance
Bought from the Blumka Gallery, New York in 1950 (Gift of Dorothy Chatterton Malone in memory of her father Rev. Herbert I. Chatterton).

Bibliography
Medieval Art, exhibition catalogue, Tulsa (Oklahoma), Philbrook Art Center, 1965, no. 105.
G. Joice, M. Knight, and P. McClusky, Ivories in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, 1987), no. 13, p. 17.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 104.


Image

© Seattle Art Museum. Photography: Elizabeth Mann.
Credit Line: Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Dorothy Chatterton Malone in Memory of her father, Rev. Herbert I. Chatterton

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