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Pax (baiser de paix) (Back)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. 741

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 75mm

Saint Jerome as a cardinal, holding crucifix and book; lion.
Crosshatched background. Twisted columns. Foliated decoration.


Koechlin Number: 0939

Destrée 1902: 15th or 16th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th or early 16th century.
Brussels 1964: France, c. 1500.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved and smooth.
The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost.

Object Condition
Missing: handle.

Provenance
Acquired from M. Justin in 1856.

Bibliography
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 28 (1071).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 335; II, no. 939.
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 123, fig. 108.


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