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Reliquary ostensorium
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Reliquary ostensorium

anonymous · c. 1800 - c. 1900 · casting; engraving; brass (alloy); glass

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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The object of gilded copper consists of a plate decorated with an engraved figure of Christ, placed on four feet and with two forked stands on top in the center, of which one is missing. On the corners stand four bishops with their heads in the same direction and each holding a crozier in their hands. With the other hand they carry, together with the forked stands, a cylindrical glass set in a gilded copper mount, consisting of two upright panels and two horizontally placed pins that support the cylindrical glass. The panels of the mount are decorated with pinnacles and with each three upright pins, which end in a rosette shape, in which stones have been set. Of these only the two middle ones are still present. One side has a yellow stone, the other an orange-red stone. On both sides two rosettes are broken off.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineReliek-ostensorium. c. 1800 - c. 1900. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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