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

Pax, 1 register, 1 ogee arch (baiser de paix) (Front)
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Subject
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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 62

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 72mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon; rugged cross.
Crosshatched background; Flamboyant tracery; tiled roof or brickwork.


Koechlin Number: 0896

Witte 1912: France, c. 1500.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th century.
Randall 1994: Dutch (Utrecht), 1440-1470.
Richter 2003: Netherlands or Northern France, c. 1480-1490.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved. Slot for a missing handle, with two visible mounting holes.

Object Condition
Several damaged areas on the front of the piece.
Missing: central part of the upper border.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had bought it from an art dealer in Bordeaux (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. 13.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 333; II, no. 896.
R. H. Randall, 'Dutch Ivories of the Fifteenth Century', in Beelden in de late Middeleeuwen en Renaissance, ed. by R. Falkenburg et al., Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (Zwolle, 1994), pp. 126-139 (p. 136).
T. Richter, Paxtafeln und Pacificalia, Studien zu Form, Ikonographie und liturgischem Gebrauch (Weimar, 2003), no. 59.


Image

Foto: © Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln.

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