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Memento mori showing woman with half a head and half a skull | |||
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Memento mori showing woman with half a head and half a skull label QS:Len,"Memento mori showing woman with half a head and half a skull" |
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Reference URL InfoField | https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co77229 |
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Author | Science Museum Group Studio | ||
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JPEG file comment | Group shot of various memento mori, showing the variety of origins and different materials in the collection. From left to right and back to front: boxwood carved statue, in the form of a skeleton and a demon playing a musical instrument, depicting the dance of death, probably Japanese (A129821), wooden bust of a woman, half head, half skull, mounted on a ivory and wooden stand, possibly Italian (A641349), silver vinaigrette in the form of a skull (A642133), Alarm clock, mounted on model of coffin with skeleton, probably English (A113335), Tobacco jar, wood carved in form of human skull, with ivory snake crawling through ear and eye sockets (A74840), Ivory skull, with 3 toads and a snake climbing on it, possibly Japanese (A641453), Ivory model of a skull, stylized, with moving eyes, tongue and mandible, operated by a metal mechanism contained within the skull (A641295), Ivory model of a half head, half skull (A129116), Ivory model of a skull and head, back to back, covered with worms and toads, possibly French (A129113), Ivory model of a skull, finely carved with a snake coiled around the top on which a toad sits, Japanese (A641314), and finally memento mori skull, wood, with crossbones, (probably) European, (A99556). |
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