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
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Ecouen, Musée national de la Renaissance; on deposit from Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

ECl. 15311

Ivory

Height: 40 mm
Width: 52 mm

Skull (Death); vermin; worms; bird; snakes.

Museum's opinion 2015: 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
Hole down the centre.

Provenance
Bequest of François-Achille Wasset in 1906 (no. 9682); in the collection of the Musée national de la Renaissance in Ecouen since 1986.

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