Gothic Ivories Project | Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 150mm

Presentation in the Temple; Virgin holding Christ; naked Christ; woman holding a container (?); onlookers; columns; altar decorated with a row of pierced quatrefoils.

Scholten 2004: Northern Netherlands, c. 1480-1500.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
On the art market in the Netherlands c. 1965.

Bibliography
F. Scholten, 'Nederlandse ivoren pax uit de late middeleeuwen', in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 52 (2004), no. 1, pp. 3-23 (pp. 13-14, fig. 13).

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