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Rosary with 10 beads (chapelet) (Front)

Rosary with 10 beads (chapelet) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Memento Mori.

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London, The British Museum

1879,0203.2 (Dalton 475)

Ivory;metal (fittings);garnet

Depth: 15 mm (each bead)
Length: 450 mm

Head of man (x5), including head of cleric (x2); head of woman (x5), including head of queen (x2);
Primary bead: Betrayal (Kiss of Judas; Taking of Christ) (according to Dalton).

Dalton 1909: Flemish, c. 1500.
Museum's opinion 2014: Belgium, c. 1500.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Donated by William Burges, Esq., in 1879.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 575, pl. CVI.


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