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Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Madrid, Museo Lázaro Galdiano

Inv. 2076

Ivory;metal with enamel (later frame and handle)

Height: 65mm
Width: 47mm (ivory only)

Deposition with thieves; Virgin in prayer supported by saint John the Evangelist; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; saint Mary Magdalene raising her arms at the foot of the cross; Holy Women praying; sun and moon; soldiers; ladders; onlookers; hanging purse.
Background with foliated decoration.

Lázaro Galdiano 1926: 15th century.
Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: French, late 15th century.
Camón Aznar 1951: French, 1st half of the 15th century. 16th-century mount with enamel.
Museum's opinion 2013: France (Paris), early 15th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: France (Paris), c. 1400-1410. Later silver frame.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Not visible, hidden by the later frame.

Provenance
Lázaro collection (from at least 1926).

Bibliography
J. Lázaro Galdiano, La Colección Lázaro (Madrid, 1926), I, p. 212, no. 212.
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).
J. Camón Aznar, Guía abreviada del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid, 1951), p. 24.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 457 (no. 4), in relation to no. 157.

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