Gothic Ivories Project | Rosary bead, 3 faces

Rosary bead, 3 faces

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Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

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London, The Wernher Collection, Ranger's House (English Heritage)

88259073 (EE534)

Ivory;silver (mount and hook)

Height: 41mm (with mount)
Width: 28mm

Side 1: head of a young woman (Youth).
Side 2: head of an old woman (Old Age).
Side 3: skull (Death); vermin; worms.

Williamson 2002: France, c. 1540.
Museum's opinion 2009: French, c. 1540.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Sir Julius Wernher (d. 1912), Bath House, London; on loan to English Heritage and displayed at Ranger's House since 2002.

Bibliography
P. Williamson, 'Medieval Ivory Carvings in the Wernher Collection', in Apollo (May 2002), pp. 17-22 (p. 21, fig. 13).

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