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Belt buckle (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 65mm

Holy Face of Christ (Sancta Facies); foliated decoration.

Koechlin Number: 1227

Koechlin 1924: France, early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Victor Gay (b. 1820, d. 1887), Paris; collection of Mrs V. Gay; sale, Paris, 23 March 1909, lot 87.

Bibliography
V. Gay, Glossaire archéologique du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance, I (Paris, 1887-1928), p. 182.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 447; II, no. 1227.

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