Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1500-1525
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Musée de Cluny, Paris, France
Object Number
21.323
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall length: 15 cm (5 7/8 in.)
Description
Partial decade rosary: Paternoster - Upper scene: Holy Kinship: Virgin and Child with saints Anne, Cleophas and Salome; Lower scene: Virgin in the Sun
Two ave beads: first ave bead: the birth of Eve, Temptation, Eve imploring God; Second ave bead: Resurrection of Lazarus, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, Last Supper
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Latin inscriptions carved on Pater Noster
AVE RADIX SANCTA EX QUA MVN[di]LVX EST ORTA [inner upper]
IN SOLE POSVIT TABERNACVLVM SVVM [inner lower]
BENE OMNIA FECIT DOMINVS [outer upper]
O MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI [outer lower]
[source: Sauzay, 1861]
AVE RADIX SANCTA EX QUA MVN[di]LVX EST ORTA [inner upper]
IN SOLE POSVIT TABERNACVLVM SVVM [inner lower]
BENE OMNIA FECIT DOMINVS [outer upper]
O MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI [outer lower]
[source: Sauzay, 1861]
Published References
Alexandre Sauzay, Catalogue du Musée Sauvageot (Paris: Musée Impérial du Louvre, 1861) , p. 48, no. 191
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 16
Provenance
Provenance
Sauvageot Collection, Paris
Previous Owner(s)
Charles Sauvageot