Pax with the Death and the Assumption of the Virgin Pax table with the deathbed and the ascension of Mary, Pax table with ivory, carved in relief with the representation of Maria's Deathbed and Ascension. Mary is lying in a fifteenth century four-poster bed, surrounded by the apostles and two women. At the top she is carried to heaven by four angels. The whole is set in a gothic, threefold arch, resting, on either side, on double pilasters / pillars. The back of the curved pax table has a handle in which the letter B is incorporated, the Dormition: Mary on her deathbed, the apostles are gathered around her (assuming sleeping or dreaming), the assumption of Mary (assumption corporis): she is borne into heaven by angels, anonymous, Northern Netherlands, c. 1500 - c. 1520, ivory, cutting, h 21.3 cm × w 12.7 cm × d 8.2 cm
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