Gothic Ivories Project | Pax with truncated gable (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax with truncated gable (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax with truncated gable (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
www.museenkoeln.de

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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 79

Ivory

Height: 60mm
Width: 45mm
Depth: 10mm

Seated saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei).
Crosshatched background.

Witte 1912: Cologne, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved.

Object Condition
Very damaged. The piece broke in several pieces.

Provenance
Found in an archaeological context in Cologne. Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918); Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910.

Bibliography
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), p. 94, pl. 84, no. 5.

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