Rare two-sided carved ivory rosary bead adorned with two bus - Lot 25

Rare two-sided carved ivory rosary bead adorned with two busts leaning against a carved cartouche: one depicting Herod, head turbaned, holding a scepter (incomplete), the other, Salome with the sword of St. John the Baptist's torture and the dish intended to receive his head. Base decorated with foliage. France or Southern Netherlands, circa 1520-1530. Sold with Cites certificate. Expert : Cabinet Fligny, Paris. Several rosary beads of the same type are held in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Inv.17.190.306 and Inv. 30.95.127), the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Inv. 2150-1855), the Museum Schnütgen, Cologne (Inv. B 164). Book consulted: S. Perkinson, The Ivory Mirror, The art of mortality in Renaissance Europe, Bowdoin college Museum of art, Brunswick, Maine, 2017, plates 26 to 29, p. 202. Height: 3.2 cm - Weight: 10 grams. Plinth. Total height: 12 cm. S. Perkinson, The Ivory Mirror, The art of mortality in Renaissance Europe, Bowdoin college Museum of art, Brunswick, Maine, 2017, plates 26 to 29, p. 202.