EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Details
a silver and gilt-metal-mounted house altar
Early 17th Century
Mounted overall with pierced foliate scrolling borders and flower-heads, the broken pediment centered by a panelled silver plaque of God the Father surmounted by the orb and the cross, the central arched panel fitted with an associated oil-on-copper painting depicting Mary with the Infant and kneeling shepherds flanked by chanelled columns and niches with a later silver figure of a priest on the left and of a king Lazarus to the right, above two rectangular reliquary frames flanked by scrolling supports, the protruding base with a panelled drawer mounted with two medallions depicting St. John and mary of Magdalin flanking a central shaped opening with a velvet-lined interior for a relic, possibly Antwerp
96cm. high x 37cm. wide
Early 17th Century
Mounted overall with pierced foliate scrolling borders and flower-heads, the broken pediment centered by a panelled silver plaque of God the Father surmounted by the orb and the cross, the central arched panel fitted with an associated oil-on-copper painting depicting Mary with the Infant and kneeling shepherds flanked by chanelled columns and niches with a later silver figure of a priest on the left and of a king Lazarus to the right, above two rectangular reliquary frames flanked by scrolling supports, the protruding base with a panelled drawer mounted with two medallions depicting St. John and mary of Magdalin flanking a central shaped opening with a velvet-lined interior for a relic, possibly Antwerp
96cm. high x 37cm. wide