Gothic Ivories Project | Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side)

Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side)

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Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

Repository Institution
www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de

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Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. R 759

Ivory

Height: 42 mm
Width: 43 mm

Side 1: head of corpse; worms; vermin. Inscription: 'der not der biteren Tot aller nocht [or not?] oberst 1522'.
Side 2: skull (Death); vermin; worms; toads.

Berliner 1926: Germany, dated 1522.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Chipped at the bottom.
Missing: part of a worm.

Comments
Pierced down the centre.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum before 1896.

Bibliography
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 79.

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