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Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side 1)

Rosary bead, 2 faces (chapelet) (Side 1)
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Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

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Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

Inv. WA2013.1.30

Metal (mount and hook);ivory

Height: 65 mm

Side 1: head of an old man (Old Age).
Side 2: skull (Death); vermin; toads; rats; frog; worms.
Scroll containing inscriptions.

Wellby 2009: South Germany, c. 1520


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Michael Sinclair Wellby (b. 1928, d. 2012): his bequest to the Museum in 2013.

Bibliography
M. Wellby, The Wellby Collection (unpublished, 2009), no. 18.


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