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Rosary bead, 3 faces (Side 3)

Rosary bead, 3 faces (Side 3)
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Side 1

Side 2

Bottom

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Pavia, Musei Civici

Inv. A.M. 467

Ivory

Height: 20mm
Width: 15mm

Side 1: head of Christ.
Side 2: head of the Virgin.
Side 3: skull (Death).

Museum's opinion 2013: 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Vertical drill hole through the centre for suspension.

Provenance
Collection of Camillo Brambilla (1809-1892): his bequest to the museum in 1892.

Bibliography
R. Maiocchi, Catalogo dei quadri e degli oggetti d'arte e di curiosità raccolti nelle sale superiori del Museo civico di Storia Patria di Pavia (1892-1906), p. 107, no. 146.
R. Soriga, Inventario degli oggetti interessanti le arti minori (1939), no. 457.
M. Ricotti, La collezione degli avori dei Civici Musei di Pavia (Pavia, 1985-1986), pp. 186.


Image

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