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Pommel (fragment) or rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side 1)

Pommel (fragment) or rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side 1)
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Side 2

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Side 2

Side 1

Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 130

Ivory

Height: 70mm

Side 1: head of a young man (Youth).
Side 2: skull (Death); vermin; worms.
Foliated decoration.

Chestnut Hill 2000: France, 16th century.
Cologne 2006: Netherlandish, early 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Pierced vertically for suspension.

Provenance
Acquired from Elisabeth Osthoff, Bielefeld, 7 April 1962.

Bibliography
R. Dieckhoff, 'Klappernd Gebein und nagend Gewürm: Memento mori im Schnütgen-Museum', in Kleine Festschrift zum dreifachen Jubiläum, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen-Museum, 1981, pp. 39-46 (p. 43 and fig. on p. 42).
N. Netzer, V. Reinburg, Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne, exhibition catalogue, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2000, no. 22 (with ill on p. 133).
Zum Sterben schön! Alter, Totentanz und Sterbekunst von 1500 bis heute, ed. by A. von Hülsen-Esch and H. Westermann-Angerhausen, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 2006, no. 45.


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Foto: © Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln.

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