Rosary Pendant Bead with the Virgin and Saint Anne and Christ with the Woman of Samaria
1500-1530 (Renaissance)
W: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm): Closed H with loop: 2 1/8 x Diam: 1 5/8 in. (5.35 x 4.1 cm); Open H: 1 5/8 x W: 3 1/8 x D: 1 3/16 in. (4.05 x 7.96 x 2.96 cm)
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This intricately carved hinged ball would have functioned as a paternoster bead on a rosary, that is, one that would prompt the saying of the prayer beginning “Our Father.” Beads that open to reveal devotional images on the inside are known as prayer nuts. This one differs fro...
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Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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en
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3
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boxwood, metal mount