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Alabaster 'Memento Mori' sculpture at All Saints'
1693
Churches Conservation Trust
London, United Kingdom
This carved collection of a skull, hourglass, flowers, trumpet and torch is a 'memento mori' – a type of memorial to a person who has died. These symbols are reminders that life is finite, contemplation on how the beauty of flowers is soon lost and the pleasant sound of an instrument fades when it is not played.
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Details
- Title: Alabaster 'Memento Mori' sculpture at All Saints'
- Date Created: 1693
- Location: All Saints, Spetchley, Worcestershire
- Location Created: Spetchley
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: ©The CCT/ Ian Tustin
- External Link: All Saints, Spetchley, Worcestershire
- Medium: Stone
- Photographer: Ian Tustin
- Commissioned by: Churches Conservation Trust
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