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Pommel (fragment) or rosary bead, 4 faces (chapelet) (Side 1)

Pommel (fragment) or rosary bead, 4 faces (chapelet) (Side 1)
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Side 2

Front

Subject
Secular. Memento mori.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 3097 (almost completely destroyed)

Bone

Height: 95mm

Side 1: bust of man holding a flower.
Side 2: bust of woman; dog.
Side 3: bust of naked man.
Side 4: bust of skeleton (Death); toad.
Foliated decoration.

Volbach 1923: Netherlands, c. 1520.
Dokumentation 2006: Netherlands, c. 1520.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Hole down the centre.
Almost completely destroyed during WWII: two surviving fragments.

Provenance
Given to the Museum by Dr. P. von Liebermann in 1907; undocumented after 7 April 1945; two fragments have survived and were returned by the Soviet Union to the Museum in 1958.

Bibliography
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), pp. 57-58, pl. 63.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 243.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].


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