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

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

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Subject
Religious.

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Orléans, Musée historique et archéologique de l'Orléanais

A.6966

Ivory

Height: 94mm
Width: 95mm
Depth: 5-9mm

Annunciation with seated Virgin; kneeling angel holding a scroll with inscription 'AVE GRATIA PLENA'; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit; God the Father with orb and cross; throne with a canopy, pinnacles and hanging curtain; ewer; book; basket with wool.
Diapered background with quatrefoils enclosed in lozenge shapes; pinnacles.

Koechlin Number: 0911

Koechlin 1924: French, early 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: Flanders, c. 1500.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved and smooth. Ivory handle decorated with a pierced quatrefoil. Ink inscription: '832'.

Object Condition
Two holes in the upper part of the pax.

Provenance
Probably property of Abbé Rocher, Orléans, in 1876 (see Orléans 1876). Acquired by the museum before June 1940.

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, 1876, no. 794, 'Paix en ivoire. XVe siècle'.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 334; II, no. 911; III, pl. CLXII.

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