Gothic Ivories Project | Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Bottom)

Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Bottom)

Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Bottom)

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Side 2

Side 1

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Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge; on loan to Arras, Musée des Beaux Arts d'Arras

Cl. 15310

Ivory

Height: 35 mm
Width: 34 mm
Depth: 27 mm

Side 1: head of a lady; elaborate headdress; plaited hair.
Side 2: head of a youth.

Museum's opinion 2015: 16th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Underside flat and smooth.

Comments
Hole down the centre.

Provenance
Bequest of François-Achille Wasset in 1906 (no. 9681).

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