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Rosary Terminal Bead with Lovers and Death's Head
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Elephant ivory with emerald pendant silver-gilt mount, North French or South Netherlandish
Rights: Public Domain
Medieval Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan 1917
Title: Rosary Terminal Bead with Lovers and Death's Head
Description:
Elephant ivory with emerald pendant silver-gilt mount, North French or South Netherlandish.
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