Phylactery

13th century (Medieval)

19 cm 19 cm 4.1 cm

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This type of reliquary is called a phylactery (amulet) after the smaller versions of the same shape that believers wore around their necks for personal protection. This phylactery may originally have rested on a sculpted base or have been suspended from a canopy above the alta...

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Joseph Brummer, New York; Joseph Brummer Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 12, 1949, no. 383; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.
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