Reliquary Bust

ca. 1650-1700 (Baroque)

24.5 cm 26 cm 14.6 cm

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Reliquary busts contained body parts of the saints represented. In this bust, the relics were originally placed in compartments underneath the "jewel" (glass over foil) decorating the clasps that fastens the saints' liturgical capes. Walters 54.736 is a companion reliquary bust.

Sculpture

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Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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