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TWO ITALIAN POLYCHROMED WOOD AND GILT-WOOD SKULLS AND A MEMENTO MORI, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY |
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 EUR
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Description
- bois
- H. (skull) 18 cm & 17 cm, 7 in. & 6 2/3 in. ; (memento mori) 12 cm, 4 2/3 in.
the memento mori resting on two crossbones inscribed QUEL CHE TU SEI IO ERA QUEL CHE IO SONO TU SARAI [what you are I will be, what I am you will be]
Literature
A. Tapié, Vanité - Mort que me veux-tu?, exh. cat. Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 2010, p. 85 (the memento mori)