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August 21, 2013 at 03:32AM

December 23, 2013 at 09:00AM

Surely intended for the use of a monk, this pendant represents a head divided to depict a monk on one half, and a skull on the other, making explicit the user's own mortality and the certainty of death. The carver conveys the reality of impending death in the monk's eyes rolling into his head, his parted lips, and his pallor, which is suggested by the natural color of ivory. Given the attachment for metal loops on the top of the head and at the base of the skull, it is most likely that this head was part of a string of beads

 

H: 2 3/4 × W: 1 13/16 × D: 2 in. (7 × 4.6 × 5.1 cm)

medium: ivory, painted brass (rings), cord/string

 

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

art.thewalters.org/detail/5036

Overall: 5 x 14 1/4 in. (12.7 x 36.2 cm)

 

medium: Silk satin with supplementary weft patterning

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 46.186.83 1946

Rogers Fund, 1946

www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44099

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