Side 1: head of a young man (Youth).
Side 2: head of an old man (Old Age).
Side 3: skull (Death).
Lowden 2008: Northern France or Flanders, c. 1540.
Museum's opinion 2008: French, c. 1540.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Thomson collection, Toronto: acquired from Stephen Foster Antiques, England, in August 1995; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.
Bibliography
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Ontario, 2008), no. 47.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 166.
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