Gothic Ivories Project | Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side 2)

Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side 2)

Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side 2)

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Side 2

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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S/n

Ivory

Height: 55 mm

Side 1: Virgin and Child;Christ holding a rosary.
Side 2: saint Mary Magdalene, in bust, holding an ointment pot; fashionable dress; necklace.
Foliated decoration.

Koechlin Number: 1231

Koechlin 1924: France, early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
Hole down the centre.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris. Collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 307. Mutiaux collection (c. 1924).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 449; II, no. 1231.

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