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RARE - 16th century jewelry
作品估价：EUR 100-200
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RARE - 16th century jewelry
拍品描述：
RARE - 16th century jewelry
Sixteenth-century silver ring called Memento Mori depicting a skull on a cross of bone and probably tibia. The ring is cracked on one side of the head and there is an attempt to repair it with old resin on the other side. This type of ring takes up the medieval idea of the Ars Moriendi, the art of dying. The theme may seem surprising, but it was used to avoid sin and remember that the Last Judgment was approaching every day and every hour. In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, Memento Mori were truly reminders of "Remember you're going to die". These jewels can be found as rings, brooches or skulls on rosaries. The 17th century went even further, reproducing Vanitas, paintings depicting the skull in everyday life, often close to scenes of wealth, vanity and lust. Clearly, the sight of a skull calms temptations. The notion of purgatory appeared as early as the 12th century, and began to spread slowly in the 13th century! Purgatory is an antechamber where souls can be judged, and where those who have committed no cardinal sin can be cleansed by the flames of a purifying fire. If you're going to die, you might as well have an escape route to heaven. To avoid mortal sin, the Memento Mori is the ideal jewel! Deformed ring.
Finger circumference impossible to take without damaging the ring.
Gross weight: 1.3 g.
Provenance:
KölnerMünzKabinett sale, June 30 and July 1, 2015, comes from the Eifel region from a family possession.
Sixteenth-century silver ring called Memento Mori depicting a skull on a cross of bone and probably tibia. The ring is cracked on one side of the head and there is an attempt to repair it with old resin on the other side. This type of ring takes up the medieval idea of the Ars Moriendi, the art of dying. The theme may seem surprising, but it was used to avoid sin and remember that the Last Judgment was approaching every day and every hour. In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, Memento Mori were truly reminders of "Remember you're going to die". These jewels can be found as rings, brooches or skulls on rosaries. The 17th century went even further, reproducing Vanitas, paintings depicting the skull in everyday life, often close to scenes of wealth, vanity and lust. Clearly, the sight of a skull calms temptations. The notion of purgatory appeared as early as the 12th century, and began to spread slowly in the 13th century! Purgatory is an antechamber where souls can be judged, and where those who have committed no cardinal sin can be cleansed by the flames of a purifying fire. If you're going to die, you might as well have an escape route to heaven. To avoid mortal sin, the Memento Mori is the ideal jewel! Deformed ring.
Finger circumference impossible to take without damaging the ring.
Gross weight: 1.3 g.
Provenance:
KölnerMünzKabinett sale, June 30 and July 1, 2015, comes from the Eifel region from a family possession.