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

Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side)

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Subject
Secular. Religious.

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Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

Inv. 1959.84

Ivory

Side 1: head of a man (Youth?).
Side 2: skull biting on a bit (Death); lizard; vermin; worms;
Scroll with inscription: 'O MOR C[...] AMARA EST MEMORIA TUA'.

Museum's opinion 2015: Netherlandish, early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Pierced vertically down the middle.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum in 1959. [Provenance information not yet communicated]

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