Rosary Terminal Bead with Lovers and Death's Head

Medium

Ivory, with emerald pendant, silver-gilt mount

Dimensions

Overall: 5 3/8 x 1 9/16 x 1 11/16 in. (13.6 x 4 x 4.3 cm) ivory only: 2 13/16 x 1 9/16 x 1 11/16 in. (7.2 x 4 x 4.3 cm)

Classification

Ivories

Culture

North French or South Netherlandish

Department

Medieval Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Accession Number

17.190.305

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