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Subject
Secular. Memento Mori.
Repository Institution
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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
17.190.306
Ivory;silver;partially gilded mounts
Height: 627mm
Width: 54mm
Depth: 45mm (overall); Top Terminal
Primary beads with parted faces
Parted faces: face of tonsured priest or monk; face of bearded tonsured cleric; skull; vermin; worms (Death).
Smaller beads with 2 faces
Busts of men and women in profile, contemporary costume. Skeleton in bust; scroll with engraved inscription 'COGITA MORI' ('Think to die'). Skeleton in bust; scroll with engraved inscription 'SV QVOT ERIS' (i.e. 'SVM QVOD ERIS', 'I am what you will be').
Foliated decoration.
Ann Arbor 1975: Germany, early 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: Germany, c. 1500-1525.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: beads.
Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York and London; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
Images of Love and Death in Renaissance and Late Medieval Art, exhibition catalogue, ed. by W. R. Levin, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, November 1975-January 1976, no. 83, pl. LXIII.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 248 (in relation to no. 368).
P. Williamson, 'Medieval Ivory Carvings in the Wernher Collection', in Apollo (May 2002), pp. 17-22 (p. 21, fig. 17).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 474, fig. 1, in relation to no. 164.
Image
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph by Thomas Vinton, Medieval Art and The Cloisters.
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