Reliquary Shrine with Scenes from the Life of Christ

ca. 1230-50 (Medieval)

46.7 cm 39.7 cm 14.6 cm

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On the front of this unusually large shrine are scenes from the Life of Christ: (top) the Presentation in the Temple; the Adoration of the Magi; the Flight into Egypt; (bottom) the Carrying of the Cross; the Crucifixion; and the Holy Women at the Tomb. On the short sides, an e...

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Collège de Jésuites, Billom, France, before 1789; Municipality of Billom Sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Paris, March 26, 1886; Charles Mannheim (1833-1910), Paris, March 26, 1886; Comte Gaston Chandon de Briailles (1852-1914), Beaune, Côte d'Or, before 1900; Hector Economos, Paris, before 1913; Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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