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Rosary pendant, 3 faces; part of a rosary decade (chapelet) (Front)
Rosary pendant, 3 faces; part of a rosary decade (chapelet) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

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Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

Inv. D 5

Ivory;agate;silver-gilt

Height: 555mm (in total)

Bust of a queen. Skeleton (Death); vermin; toad. Bust of a monk.
Twisted columns.
Under a baldachin with foliated decoration.

Vienna 1991: Germany (?), 1st quarter of the 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Queen Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1503, d. 1547), wife of Emperor Ferdinand I. Recorded in inventories (in 1780, all ten agate beads were still extant; two are now missing).

Bibliography
H. Zimmerman, 'Urkunden, Akten und Regesten aus dem Archiv des K.K. Ministeriums des Inneren', in Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses V (1887), reg. no. 4525, p. CXLIV - no. 233.
The Secular and Ecclesiastical Treasuries. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Illustrated Guide (Vienna, 1991), Room II, no. 50.


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