Gothic Ivories Project | Complete rosary of 11 beads, with crucifix pendant (chaplet)

Complete rosary of 11 beads, with crucifix pendant (chaplet)

Complete rosary of 11 beads, with crucifix pendant (chaplet)

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Subject
Religious. Secular.

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London, The British Museum

1879,0203.2 (Dalton 475)

Ivory;metal;garnet

Height: 450mm (length)
Width: 15mm (diameter per bead)

Heads: king; alternate heads of men and women.
Openwork bead: betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas).
Pendant: crucifix.

Dalton 1909: Flemish, about 1500.
Museum's opinion 2011: Northern French or Flemish, about 1500.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
The beads are joined by wire links with a garnet between each pair.

Provenance
Collection of William Burges (b. 1827, d. 1881); British Museum, by donation, 1879.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 475, pl. CVI.

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