Gothic Ivories Project | Primary bead (fragment of rosary) (Front)

Primary bead (fragment of rosary) (Front)

Primary bead (fragment of rosary) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Memento Mori.

Repository Institution
thewalters.org

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.461

Ivory

Height: 73mm

Parted face: face of bearded and tonsured priest or monk; skull.

Randall 1985: French or Flemish, 1st half of the 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Flemish, 16th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Drilled for suspension.

Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 368.

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