Appliqué with Saint George Slaying the Dragon

ca. 1500 (Renaissance)

5.2 cm 4.5 cm 0.8 cm

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The luminescence of mother-of-pearl comes out in this delicate appliqué carving of Saint George triumphing over a lizard-like dragon. This fragment is all that remains of a circular relief that was attached to a reliquary (probably destroyed) in a famous collection of liturgic...

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Miss Dorothy Miner [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by gift.
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