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Rosary bead (chapelet), 3 faces

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Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

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

29277

Ivory

Height: 39.6mm
Width: 34.6mm
Depth: 32.5mm
Weight: 26g

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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