A kiss of peace in blue, white, green and turquoise polychrome painted enamel with gold highlights. It is decorated at the top with a gold button and white half-pearls. pearls. Around the rim is a frieze of intersecting foliage with palmettes inside the circles. The central miniature is framed by a bevelled frame with a green background. The The base is a doucine with a blue background on which are placed fleur-de-lys in a tapestry design. Miniature under glass set in a metal frame depicting the Crucifixion with Mary and Mary and Saint John. The back is black enamelled and supports a handle. Northern Italy, Venice, between 1485 and 1515. H. 20.1 cm - L. 14.9 cm (minor accidents and restorations) Provenance: Private collection, Italy collection Lair-Dubreuil et Henri Leman, Hôtel Douot, Paris (sale after death of the collection of Professor Gilbert), 29 November - 1 December 1927, lot 103 A corpus of eleven baisers de paix has been referenced by Françoise Barbe, head curator of the curator in the Department of Decorative Arts at the Musée du Louvre and published in a book published in 2018. According to Madame Barbe's inventory, ten of them have a curved top and a flared base. a flared base. Some are surmounted by a cross, an enamelled knob or another decorative ornament. decorative ornament. The central representation is sometimes in the form of a painted miniature protected by glass (6), sometimes enamelled (2), in engraved glass (1) or a painting under glass (1). The subjects represented are the Annunciation (1), the Virgin and Child (1), Christ on the Cross (5), Christ in sorrow (4). The Kiss of Peace shown here is reproduced in Madame Françoise Barbe's work under number number 288, p 190. An identical kiss of peace, with the same decoration, is in the Musée du Louvre, from the Alessandro Castellani collection. Alessandro Castellani collection, inv OA 2631. Book consulted: F. Barbe, I. Viron and L. Caselli, eds, I rami smaltati detti veneziani del Rinascimento italiano . 2 . Corpus delle opere nelle collezioni pubbliche e private - Les cuivres émaillés dits of the Italian Renaissance . 2 . Corpus of works in public and private collections, Milan, 2018, pp. 190.