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Gold Memento Mori Pendant, 18th Century

L0035565 A gold memento mori pendant
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A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Open)
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Landscape drawing by Jan de Bisschop, 18th Century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, gray, blue and green washes, over black chalk.

Cornelis Troost’s “Monatsbild Dezember,” 18th Century

“Month December.”  Oil on copper.

Cornelis Troost (successor) Month December.jpg