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Gabled panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; baiser de paix); used as a pax (Front)
Gabled panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; baiser de paix); used as a pax (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum

SK 82 (lost)

Ivory

Height: 163mm
Width: 80mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Pointed trefoil in the gable.

Schweitzer 1910: Rhenish or French, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (trefoil in the pediment).

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

Object Condition
Missing: both pinnacles and part of the finial.

Provenance
Collection of Dr. Peter Wings, Aachen; donation to the Suermondt-Museum in 1886 or bequest in 1893.

Bibliography
H. Schweitzer, Die Skulpturen-Sammlung im Städtischen Suermondt-Museum zu Aachen (Aachen, 1910), I (text), p. 83; II/III (plates), pl. 64.


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