Lot no. 36
A Flemish Renaissance parcel gilt silver reliquary
Cylindrical container, the domed terminals of which with embossed gadrooning and foliate filigree friezes. The indentations encrusted with six coloured stones in gilt bezel settings. The expositorium fastened by two hinged clips on both sides.
L 26 cm.
Marks of Bruges, Adriaen Lyns sr., 1607.
Cf. a very similar reliquary in the Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur de Bruges (illus. in cat. De Sint-Salvatorskatedraal te Brugge Inventaris, in: Kunst Patrimonium van West-Vlaanderen, Amsterdam 1979, vol. 8, p. 230, no. 377). Cf. Also a monstrance with a similar reliquary compartment in the Louvre in Paris (Numéro principal OA 7752).
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Tableware, goldsmithing
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