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

Rosary bead, 2 faces (chaplet) (Side 2)

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Side 1

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Subject
Secular.

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 174 C

Ivory

Height: 60mm
Width: 42mm

Side 1: man in bust (Herod?).
Side 2: Herodias or Salome with the head of saint John the Baptist; necklace.
Foliated decoration.

Museum's opinion 2012: Germany, 16th century

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Florence, 1898), p. 251, no. 174.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 475, in relation to no. 165.

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