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Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet)

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Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

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

29273

Ivory

Height: 38.9mm
Width: 28.7mm
Depth: 36.4mm
Weight: 23g

Side 1: head of a man.
Side 2: skull (Death); vermin; worms; toads. Inscription: 'Wie der Not der biteren Todes aller noch' (As the anguish of bitter death is greater than all others).

Lowden 2008: Germany, c. 1520.
Museum's opinion 2008: France or Flanders, late 15th or early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Thomson collection, Toronto: acquired from H. S. Wellby Ltd., England, in September 1986; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Ontario, 2008), cat. 46.

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