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Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Top)

Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Top)
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Side 2


Side 1


Bottom

Side 2

Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

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

107444

Ivory

Side 1: head of old woman.
Side 2: skull (Death); toads; worms; lizards; vermin. Carved inscription: 'COGITA MORI'.

Museum's opinion 2008: 16th century, Flanders.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Thomson collection, Toronto: acquired from Hermann Baer, London, in July 1961; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.


Image

The Thomson Collection © 2010, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

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