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Gabled pax, 1 register, 1 arch across (baiser de paix) (Front)

Gabled pax, 1 register, 1 arch across (baiser de paix) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Oldenburg, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte

LMO 3.501

Ivory

Height: 144mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angel holding the sun and moon.
Pointed trefoil in the gable.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Longer edges chamfered. The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost. Painted inscription: "3501"

Object Condition
Missing: pinnacles on either side of the gable.

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
E. Heinemeyer, Mittelalterliches Kunstgewerbe: ein Wegweiser durch die Sammlung, exhibition catalogue, Oldenburg, Landesmuseum, 1970, no. 24, fig. 43.


Image

© Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg. Photograph by Sven Adelaide.

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