Lot 38. Northern French or Southern Netherlandish, circa 1500-1525, Memento mori chapelet bead. Estimate £12,000 — 18,000. Price realised £31,250 . Photo Sotheby's.

inscribed: ANSI SERONS NOVS WI OV DEMAIN, later mounted on a bamboo stick with gilt copper ferrule; ivory - ivory: 7.4cm., 3in., overall: 87cm., 34¼in.

Sotheby's. Old Master Sculpture and Works of Art Including Splendours from a Mantuan Palazzo, London, 05 Jul 2016