Bi-Face skull - Half face and half skeleton - Memento Mori - antlers carving

€165.00

Bi-Face skull - Half face and half skeleton

Carving on deer antlers - Memento Mori

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Bi-Face skull - Half face and half skeleton

Carving on deer antlers - Memento Mori

On one side the intact face, on the other the skeletal face. In the end we all end up like this!

Memento Mori : Latin locution meaning "Remember that you will die".

In order to remind proud and power-hungry men of their common fatal fate: death.

During the triumph of a Roman general, the slave on the chariot holding the laurel wreath said the famous phrase reminding him of his condition of mere mortal: "Memento mori". In order to remind him to keep his feet on the ground...

Material: Carved antler - Blackened wood base

Provenance: Indonesia

Total height: 9.5cm Diameter of the base: 3.8cm

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