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15TH CENTURY
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AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER RELIQUARY FIGURE OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
15th Century
Embossed and chased in the round, his head surmounted by a halo with long hair falling down and across his shoulders, wearing a knee-length hair shirt and with a cloak draped over his left shoulder and arm, holding a hinged box surmounted by a figure of a kneeling lamp in his left hand, on a hexagonal, stepped plinth, the sides with enamel decoration
15in. (35cm.) high on plinth
15th Century
Embossed and chased in the round, his head surmounted by a halo with long hair falling down and across his shoulders, wearing a knee-length hair shirt and with a cloak draped over his left shoulder and arm, holding a hinged box surmounted by a figure of a kneeling lamp in his left hand, on a hexagonal, stepped plinth, the sides with enamel decoration
15in. (35cm.) high on plinth
Provenance
William Randolph Hearst Collection, New York
Parish-Watson and Company, New York
Joseph Brummer Collection, sold Parke Bernet Galleries, 20-23 April 1949, lot 446
Parish-Watson and Company, New York
Joseph Brummer Collection, sold Parke Bernet Galleries, 20-23 April 1949, lot 446