Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
early 16th century
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
The Wernher Foundation, English Heritage, Ranger's House, London
Object Number
88259294
Location
AGO, Gallery 135 Betty Ann & Fraser Elliott Gallery
Institution/Owner
Dimensions
Overall Closed: 52.3mm × 48.1mm (5.2 × 4.8 cm)
Overall Open: 45.6mm × 92mm (4.6 × 9.2 cm)
Overall Open: 45.6mm × 92mm (4.6 × 9.2 cm)
Description
Upper hemisphere: Crucifixion; Lower hemisphere: Pietà surrounded by blank coat of arms and five scenes: Nativity, Flight into Egypt, Presentation or Circumcision, Carrying of the Cross, Lamentation
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Latin carved inscriptions:
MVLIER ECCE FILIVS TVVS [inner upper]
SVSTINETE PAVLVLV VT MEVM DOLORE PLANGAM [inner lower]
[source: Rijksmuseum]
REGEM MORTI TRADIT[UM] PRO NOBIS [outer upper]
SANCTA DEI GENITRIX DVLCIS ET DECORA [outer lower]
[source of texts: antiphon Salve Regina, which was said at the end of praying a rosary; John 19:26, 27 (‘Woman, behold thy son!’); from a Planctus Beatae Virginis Mariae (Lamentation of the Virgin)]
MVLIER ECCE FILIVS TVVS [inner upper]
SVSTINETE PAVLVLV VT MEVM DOLORE PLANGAM [inner lower]
[source: Rijksmuseum]
REGEM MORTI TRADIT[UM] PRO NOBIS [outer upper]
SANCTA DEI GENITRIX DVLCIS ET DECORA [outer lower]
[source of texts: antiphon Salve Regina, which was said at the end of praying a rosary; John 19:26, 27 (‘Woman, behold thy son!’); from a Planctus Beatae Virginis Mariae (Lamentation of the Virgin)]
Markings
Escutcheon at bottom of lower bead- blank or worn?
Provenance
Previous Owner(s)
Unsorted