"Created in Germany ~1500-1525, this ivory carving is the terminal on a rosary.
Each bead of the rosary represents the bust of a well-fed burgher or maiden on one side, and a skeleton on the other. The terminals, even more graphically, show the head of a deceased man, with half the image eaten away from decay."
Via Neatorama.com
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