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Rosary bead or rosary pendant, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side 2)

Rosary bead or rosary pendant, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side 2)
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Side 1

Side 1

Subject
Secular.

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London, The British Museum

SLAntiq.804 (Dalton 441)

Ivory

Height: 63mm

Side 1
Skull; toad; French inscription: 'point de deni[?] a la mort'.
Side 2
Head of dying man; worms; vermin; toads; French inscription: 'a la faint navront (?)'.

Dalton 1909: French, 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Pierced vertically for suspension.

Provenance
Collection of Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753): donated to the British Museum in 1753.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 441, pl. CV.
J. Warren, 'Sir Hans Sloane as a collector of small sculpture', in Apollo Magazine, CLIX, 504 (February 2004), pp. 31-38, p.32, figs. 4-5.
J. Cherry and J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), nos. 45, 46, 47, p. 132.


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