拍品 62
  • 62

FRENCH OR LOW-COUNTRIES, 16TH CENTURY, AND FRENCH, 16TH CENTURY, TWO HIPPOPOTAMUS IVORY AND BOVINE BONE PRAYER BEADS |

估價
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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描述

  • H. 5 cm & 5.5 cm ; 2 in. & 2 1/5 in.
one with one half carved with a Monk gnawed by worms, the second half with a skull, the other one with one half carved with a bearded man, the second with a skull, with gilt-metal pendant loop

出版

A. Tapié, Vanité - Mort que me veux-tu?, exh. cat. Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, 2010, p. 89 (as German, 17th century)

Condition

In overall fairly good condition with surface dirt and wear to the carving consistent with age and handling. A few holes are visible at several places where the worms are missing. A vertical fissure is visible to the proper right side of one bead with other hairline fissures visible in some places consistent with the material.
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