Gothic Ivories Project | Heart-shaped plaques (fragments of scabbards) (Front (B))

Heart-shaped plaques (fragments of scabbards) (Front (B))

Heart-shaped plaques (fragments of scabbards) (Front (B))

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Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

107486

Ivory

Height: 39mm
Depth: 10mm
Weight: 9g (each)

A: Dance of Death. Skeleton holding the hand of an old man.
B: man fighting with a skeleton; sword; tree.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved and hollow.

Comments
Previously in a rosewood frame against dark red velvet.

Provenance
Thomson Collection, Toronto: acquired, July 1962, from Hermann Baer, London; since 2008 Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

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