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Pax (baiser de paix) (Handle)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Handle)
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Handle

Handle

Front

Back

Subject
Religious.

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Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts

43.454

Ivory

Height: 122mm
Width: 86mm
Depth: 10mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans); throne.
Crosshatched background.

Randall 1993: Flemish, 4th quarter of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Ivory handle slotted in the back.

Provenance
Collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 303; collection of Prof. A. Gilbert, Paris: his sale, Drouot (Lair-Dubreuil), Paris, 29 November-1 December 1927, lot 78; collection of Robert H. Tannahill, Detroit: given by him to the Institute in 1943.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 172.


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