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Rosary, 10 beads, 4 faces (chapelet)

Rosary, 10 beads, 4 faces (chapelet)
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Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

Repository Institution
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Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

ODUT01281

Ivory;silver (rings);silk thread with gems (garnets)

Height: 560mm
Depth: 35mm

Heads: young woman, young man (Youth); old woman, old man (Old Age); skulls (Death); Christ.
Foliated decoration.

Museum files 2009: France (?), 1st half of the 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: 2 beads.

Comments
The beads do not seem to be in their original position.

Provenance
Collection of Count James-Alexandre de Pourtalès (b. 1776, d. 1855), Switzerland: Pourtalès-Gorgier sale, Paris, 6 February 1865, lot 1518. Collection of Auguste Dutuit, Paris: Dutuit bequest to the Museum in 1902.

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'Les Objets d'art de la collection Dutuit', in Les Arts XI (December 1902), pp. 22-32 (ill. on p. 22).
H. Lapauze, Catalogue sommaire des collections Dutuit (Paris, 1907), p. 248, no. 1281.
A. Fauchier Magnan, C. Gronkowski, H. Lapauze, Catalogue sommaire des collections Dutuit (Paris, 1925), no. 1338.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 166.


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