Ivory Memento Mori pendant with a dead man's face and a decaying skull with worms and other creatures
On display
Ivory pendant carved on one side with a dead man's face. On the other side a decaying skull with worms and other creatures. Silver suspension rings, top and bottom.
Details
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Title
Ivory Memento Mori pendant with a dead man's face and a decaying skull with worms and other creatures
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Associated place
Southern Germany (probable) (probable place of creation) -
Date
c. 1510 - 1530 -
Material and technique
elephant-ivory, silver; carved
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Object type
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Dimensions
6.5 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Michael Wellby, 2012.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 53 | European Goldsmiths' Work -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA2013.1.30
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Further reading
Wilson, Timothy, Winterbottom, Matthew, Treasures of the Goldsmith's Art: The Michael Wellby Bequest to the Ashmolean Museum (Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford, 2015)
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