Production: Unknown
Reliquary shrine of gilt-copper. Standing on an elongated quatrefoil base, pierced with quatrefoils, is a square miniature church. It is roofed with a cone-shaped tower in the centre and four gable ends. The two sides are flanked by towers with cone-shaped roofs. The front and rear walls are pierced by a double lancet window in an embrasure framed by an egg-headed moulding.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 10.5 cm
Length: 8.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
16th Century, Early#
Circa
1500
CE
-
1530
CE
W. Maurice Rosenheim on 28th February 1914 recorded his opinion that it came from Augsburg, c. 1520. Elsewhere it has been described as Rhenish.
Decoration composed of gilt
Gilt-copper : Gilt-copper
Accession number: MAR.M.54-1912
Primary reference Number: 30621
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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