Rosary Terminal Bead with Lovers and Death's Head, ca. 1500–1525, Made in North France or South Netherlands, North French or South Netherlandish, Ivory, with emerald pendant, silver-gilt mount, Overall: 5 3/8 x 1 9/16 x 1 11/16 in. (13.6 x 4 x 4.3 cm), Ivories, A string of beads is used as a memory aid in the recitation of the rosary, a multipart devotion to the Virgin. Here, the striking terminal bead announces the constant proximity of death by joining a skull to the pair of vivacious lovers
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Rosary Terminal Bead, Lovers, Death, Head, ca, 1500–1525, North France, South Netherlands, French, Netherlandish, Ivory, emerald pendant, silver-gilt mount, Overall, 5 3/8 x 1 9/16 11/16, 13.6 4 4.3 cm, Ivories, string, beads, memory aid, recitation, rosary, multipart devotion, Virgin, striking terminal, bead, announces, constant proximity, death, joining, skull, pair, vivacious lovers
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