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This medallion shows the Virgin and Child on one side and a fashionably dressed saint on the other. The holes on top and bottom indicate that it was designed for a metal setting that would have allowed it to be strung. In form it closely resembles the medallion beads strung on the Rosary nearby.
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Title: Rosary bead
Date: early 16th century
Culture: German
Medium: Ivory
Dimensions: Overall: 2 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (5.7 × 3.8 cm)
Classification: Sculpture-Miniature
Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
Object Number: 30.95.127
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