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TILL DEATH DO US PART CURIO
In 1560, a painting known as "The Judd Marriage" is an excellent symbolic illustration of
life and death joined as one as part of a wedding ritual between two lovers. In the painting,
the couple is taking their vows upon a human skull, surrounded by a corpse, and some funeral
monuments.
There is an inscription between the couple of that age-old marriage vow:
"The worde of God, Hathe knit is twayne,
And Death shall us, Divide agayne."
The other inscription is directly beneath the corpse which reads: "Lyve to dye and dye to live,
eternally." The wedding vow is taken on the skull, the most powerful contemporary symbol of
mortal death. The Judd's knew one day they, too, would be dead as the image of the corpse by
the words: "We Behold our End," a motto similar to the artifacts of the memento mori.
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This beautiful framed curio is 27 and 1/2 inches wide by 23 and 1/2 inches tall. The image area is
20 inches wide by 16 inches tall.
The main image is a real human skull that has been cut in half and mounted side by side, to give
the illusion of two skulls kissing each other. Each upper corner has a vintage skeleton key with
black ribbon tied to it and the ends trailing down. Black dried roses are arranged tastefully
inside the skull where the skull cap has been removed. Fragments of the roses will drop and
this is part of the desired look and patina.
Above the skull halves is a daguerreotype frame with two entwined rings mounted beneath the
original glass. This is lying on top of vintage taxidermied crow wings. And nestled on the
crow wings is a vintage cherub found in an abandoned graveyard, which was later tinted with
human blood.
In the lower corners are more dried roses and ribbon, and beneath the skull are two crossed bones.
Please note that even though the dried roses have been sprayed with a matte acrylic, some of the
rose petals will still inevitably shatter, come loose and fall off or turn to bits of rose petal
dust, something that cannot be helped. If anything, the loose petal bits only add to the timeless
patina of this wonderful piece.
The items are mounted on vintage red velvet and framed in a beautiful vintage gold wooden frame.
This is signed and dated on the back and is ready to hang in your own personal dime museum or sideshow.
If you are thinking of purchasing a Framed Curio Exhibit,
please read the
Bone FAQ
to make sure you are within your legal
limit when purchasing human bones, &c.
This one-of-a-kind framed curio is signed, rubber-stamped and dated on the back by Madame Talbot.
Please Note: With all of my Framed Curio Exhibits, I try to replicate
an authentic atmosphere of Victorian-era Dime Museum Patina.
This of course refers to that very special layer of age that builds up over decades,
something which I try to incorporate into all of the framed curio pieces I make.
This Victorian-era Dime Museum Patina may include one or more of the following:
vintage dust fabric, flower petals shards, glue bits, thread strands, sun faded material,
water stained, and/or smoke burned 100-year-old paper, &c., &c., and &c.
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Presently in the collection of the artist
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