Gothic Ivories Project | Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 15929

Ivory

Height: 105mm
Width: 70mm
Depth: 5mm

Saint Nicholas as a bishop, resurrecting the three children standing in a tub; crozier; mitre.
Crosshatched background.

Koechlin Number: 0938ter

Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th or early 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, late 15th or early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Missing: lower right corner of the panel.

Provenance
Given by Hugues Imbert in 1906.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 335; II, no. 938ter.

Image

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