Reliquary for a Finger Bone
Three angels elevate the hollow glass cylinder of this reliquary, a type of dramatic "display" reliquary that became popular in the late Middle Ages. Inside is the relic of an unknown saint, a small fragment of a bone, possibly from a finger, wrapped in a piece of cloth.
Images (3)
Artifact
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16102
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Michel Boy, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 15, 1905, no. 661; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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language
en
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3
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.690 |
Terms
Culture
Burgundian