Rosary bead, 3 faces (chapelet)
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Subject Religious.
Unknown location
S/n
Ivory
Height: 32mm
Side 1: head of Christ. Side 2: head of the Virgin. Side 3: skull (Death).
Unpublished.
Attribution Unknown
Reverse Carved in the round.
Object Condition Vertical hole down the centre of the piece. Missing: jaw of the skull.
Provenance Christie's, London, 15 December 1995, lot 38. Sotheby's, London, 5 October 2000, lot 98.
Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.
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