Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Side)

Statuette (Side)

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Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Unlocated

Ivory

Side 1: standing naked female figure.
Side 2: standing skeleton (Death); vermin; worms; toad.
Engraved inscription on the base.

Berliner 1930: France, 19th century (c. 1840).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Bibliography
R. Berliner, 'Über einige Kleinplastiken', in Belvedere 9-2 (1930), pp. 99-111 (p. 103, fig. 71).

Image

Out of Copyright. From R. Berliner, 'Über einige Kleinplastiken', in Belvedere 9-2 (1930).

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