One of a Pair of Columns from a Shrine

late 12th century (Medieval)

4.4 cm 23.7 cm 4.2 cm

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This piece is one of two small columns, or colonnettes, detached from the sides of a church-shaped reliquary shrine. One column (Walters 44.597) has checkered trellis pattern of enamel filled with tiny crosses and is topped by a gilt capital ornamented with small cast birds....

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19139
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Germeau, Paris; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, by purchase; Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, April 23, 1949, no. 718; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.
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