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

Pax, 1 ogee arch across (baiser de paix) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Poitiers, Musée de Poitiers

Inv. B 3933

Ivory

Height: 80mm
Width: 55mm

Noli me tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); Christ holding a banner or a spade; ointment pot; tree.
Brickwork or tiled roof; crosshatched background.

Brouillet 1885: 1st half of the 16th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th or early 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: hair, halo, architectural details, along the hems.

Reverse
Curved.

Provenance
Gué gift (before 1885; Mr Gué seems to have been usher at the Poitiers préfecture).

Bibliography
P.-A. Brouillet, Notice des tableaux, dessins, gravures, statues, objets d'art anciens et modernes, curiosités, etc. composant les collections de la ville (Poitiers, 1885), no. 3933 (mistakenly recognised as a Doubting Thomas).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 333; II, no. 917 (same error as Brouillet regarding the iconography).


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