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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

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OA 7869

Ivory

Height: 130mm
Width: 66mm
Depth: 18mm

Betrayal (taking of Christ; kiss of Judas); Christ holding a book.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Spain (?), 1st half of the 14th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: heads, left part of the relief.
The right part seems to have been recut.
Two holes.

Comments
May be related to a relief depicting the Arrest of Christ also in the Louvre (OA 7270).

Provenance
Huérmeces, near Burgos, Spain. Gift of abbé Breuil, accepted by the Musée du Louvre in 1926.

Bibliography
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 194.

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