Inv. B 162
Side 1: bust of a nobleman in profile, wearing a cap and a fur-lined coat.
Side 2: bust of a young woman in profile, wearing a veil, a pearl necklace with a cross, and pearl earrings.
Foliated decoration.
Cologne 2006: Southern Netherlands, c. 1520.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Comments
The cap worn by the man on side 1 was particularly fashionable between 1517 and 1519 (see Cologne 2006).
Provenance
Collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig, Aachen (purchased in 1963 from Blumka, New York); on permanent loan to the Museum from 1963 to 2011; donated to the museum in 2011.
Bibliography
U. Bock, Memento Mori, Schnütgen Museum: Wege durch die Sammlung 3 (Cologne, year unknown).
500 Jahre Rosenkranz: 1475 - 1975, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Erzbischöfliches Diözesan-Museum, 25 October 1975 - 15 January 1976.
A. von Euw, Schnütgen-Museum Köln (Cologne, 1984).
Der Rosenkranz. Andacht, Geschichte, Kunst, ed. by U.-B. Frei, F. Bühler (Bern, 2003).
Zum Sterben schön! Alter, Totentanz und Sterbekunst von 1500 bis heute, ed. by A. von Hülsen-Esch and H. Westermann-Angerhausen, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 2006, no. 48.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 475, in relation to no. 164.
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