THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A GILT-COPPER RELIQUARY

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A GILT-COPPER RELIQUARY
GERMAN, FIRST HALF 15TH CENTURY

With a cylindrical rock crystal sleeve; the pinnacles and possibly the enamels of the knop on the stem later.
17in. (43.2cm.) high
Literature
J.M. Fritz, Goldschmiedekunst der Gotik in Mitteleuropa, Munich, 1982, fig. 460

Lot Essay

This type of monstrance, which would originally have contained a relic, is comparable with examples datable to the late 14th or early 15th centuries, such as the one in the Lambertuskirche in Düsseldorf which Fritz (loc. cit.) associates with Cologne.

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