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AN ENGRAVED GILT-COPPER RELIQUARY CROSS
SPANISH, LATE 15TH OR EARLY 16TH CENTURY
Set with pastes and silver repoussé roundels on one side, and with a hinged door to enclose a relic, the other side engraved with the four symbols of the four evangelists, and an angel holding up the Veil of St. Veronica.
Four pastes and two roundels missing; damages; on an associated, lobed gilt-copper base.
26 5/8in. (67.6cm) high, including base
SPANISH, LATE 15TH OR EARLY 16TH CENTURY
Set with pastes and silver repoussé roundels on one side, and with a hinged door to enclose a relic, the other side engraved with the four symbols of the four evangelists, and an angel holding up the Veil of St. Veronica.
Four pastes and two roundels missing; damages; on an associated, lobed gilt-copper base.
26 5/8in. (67.6cm) high, including base