Inv. 969.7.3
Side 1: Head of a young man (Youth). Inscription: 'ARMT'.
Side 2: Skull (Death); vermin; worms; snakes; toads; lizard.
Side 3: Head of a lady; brooch; engraved inscriptions 'RAMT'; 'V' (in the brooch); 'STA MARIA Opro nobi' (below the head).
Side 4: Head of an old woman (Old Age); below: engraved inscription: 'JAM MORTHEM' or 'DAM MORTHEM'.
Museum's opinion 2013: Germany, 16th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (hair, clothes).
Reverse
Carved in the round.Three labels attached to the bottom of the pilaster, with the inscriptions: '118 Vente Paris 10 juin 1932'; 'COLLECTION DU DR P. THOBY NANTES XV'; 'EXPOSITION D'ART RELIGIEUX 1933 LA PSALLETTE NANTES 1933, 414'.
Provenance
Collection of O. D. (?) Lowenfeld: his sale, Paris, Drouot, 6-7 June 1932, lot 118; collection of Dr. P. Thoby: his bequest to the museum in 1969.
Bibliography
P. Thoby, carnet n° 48, Ivoires, Dossier Thoby, Archives du musée Dobrée [s. d.; handwritten], no. XV.
Exposition d'art religieux à la Psallette, exhibition catalogue, Nantes, Psallette de Nantes, 1933, no. 414.
Art médiéval de France: collections du Musée Thomas Dobrée de Nantes, exhibition catalogue, Fribourg, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Fribourg, 22 June-24 September 1972, no. 96.
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