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Rosary bead, 3 faces (chapelet) (Side 3)

Rosary bead, 3 faces (chapelet) (Side 3)
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Side 2

Side 1

Subject
Religious.

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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

29126

Ivory

Height: 40mm
Width: 30mm
Weight: 29g

Side 1: saint Catherine of Alexandria with a sword and broken wheel.
Side 2: saint Mary Magdalene holding an ointment pot.
Side 3: saint Barbara with a tower and martyr's palm.
Foliated decoration; twisted columns.


Koechlin Number: 1233

Koechlin 1924: Flanders or Northern France, 1st quarter of the 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2008: Netherlands, c. 1530.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: his sale, Paris, 11-16 May 1908, lot 497 (with ill.) (purchased by Larcade ?). Collection of Martine, Comtesse de Béhague (1870-1939); by descent to her nephew and heir Hubert, Marquis de Ganay, Paris; Thomson collection, Toronto (acquired at the Ganay sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 182); since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 449; II, no. 1233.


Image

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