Ciborium Fragment

8th-9th century (early Medieval)

26.5 cm 47 cm 9 cm

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This fragment, along with Walters 27.563, was part of a ciborium, a free-standing stone canopy supported by columns and covering the altar or baptismal font of a church. It shows two birds eating a cluster of grapes on a vine. This motif is found frequently in Langobardic sto...

Sculpture

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8633
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Christine Alexander (Mrs. Breckenridge Long), Rome and Laurel, Maryland [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1959, by bequest.
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