Side 1: Bust of woman. Carved inscription on her veil: 'hELAS MORIR NOVS FAVLT' ('Alas we must die').
Side 2: bust of skeleton (Death); skull; toads; worms; vermin.
Foliated capital.
Châlons-en-Champagne 2007-2008: French or Flemish, c. 1500.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 8-9 December 1988, lot 403. Sale, 6 June 1993, lot 5. Private collection, United Kingdom. Collection of Syd Levethan, New Canaan (Connecticut); Michael Dunn Antiques, Fall, in 1995. Purchased with the Walter E. Stait Fund in 2007.
Note: the order of the provenance has not been checked.
Bibliography
Ivoires du Musée du Louvre 1480-1850: une collection inédite, exhibition catalogue, Dieppe, Château-Musée de Dieppe, 2005, p. 44.
Histoires d'ivoire. Collections du Musée du Louvre et des musées de Châlons-en Champagne, exhibition catalogue, Châlons-en-Champagne, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, 2007-2008, p. 42.
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