Reliquary

1375-1400 (Medieval)

13 cm 41.2 cm 12.5 cm

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This reliquary resembles a miniature Gothic church, complete with gargoyles. It is crowned by a figure of the Evangelist Luke, with his attribute, or symbol, the ox. A relic or small piece of a saint's body would have been contained in a rock crystal cylinder (now missing).R...

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12209
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Hollingworth Magniac, Colworth, Bedfordshire, before 1862, by purchase; Charles Magniac, Colworth, 1867, by inheritance; Sale, Christies, London, July 2, 1892, no. 790; Charles Borradaile, Brighton, by purchase; George Robinson Harding, London, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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