A & A spacer courtauld institute of art
login
quick search advanced search browse temp folder

Rosary bead, 4 faces (chapelet) (Side 4)

Rosary bead, 4 faces (chapelet) (Side 4)
enlarge image zoom image

Side 3

Side 1

Side 2

Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

Repository Institution
www.loire-atlantique.fr

To purchase an image
musee.dobree@loire-atlantique.fr


Nantes, Musée Thomas Dobrée

Inv. 969.7.3

Ivory

Height: 40mm
Width: 33mm (ivory only)
Weight: 79.1g (with base)

Side 1: Head of a young man (Youth). Inscription: 'ARMT'.
Side 2: Skull (Death); vermin; worms; snakes; toads; lizard.
Side 3: Head of a lady; brooch; engraved inscriptions 'RAMT'; 'V' (in the brooch); 'STA MARIA Opro nobi' (below the head).
Side 4: Head of an old woman (Old Age); below: engraved inscription: 'JAM MORTHEM' or 'DAM MORTHEM'.

Museum's opinion 2013: Germany, 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (hair, clothes).

Reverse
Carved in the round.Three labels attached to the bottom of the pilaster, with the inscriptions: '118 Vente Paris 10 juin 1932'; 'COLLECTION DU DR P. THOBY NANTES XV'; 'EXPOSITION D'ART RELIGIEUX 1933 LA PSALLETTE NANTES 1933, 414'.

Provenance
Collection of O. D. (?) Lowenfeld: his sale, Paris, Drouot, 6-7 June 1932, lot 118; collection of Dr. P. Thoby: his bequest to the museum in 1969.

Bibliography
P. Thoby, carnet n° 48, Ivoires, Dossier Thoby, Archives du musée Dobrée [s. d.; handwritten], no. XV.
Exposition d'art religieux à la Psallette, exhibition catalogue, Nantes, Psallette de Nantes, 1933, no. 414.
Art médiéval de France: collections du Musée Thomas Dobrée de Nantes, exhibition catalogue, Fribourg, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Fribourg, 22 June-24 September 1972, no. 96.


Image

© Cliché Chantal Hémon, Musée Dobrée, Conseil général de Loire-Atlantique, Nantes.

All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.

spacer
spacer spacer spacer spacer
Please remember to acknowledge any use of the site in publications and lectures as: 'Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk', followed by the date you accessed the site.