Gothic relic monstrance in silver, gilt. Six-panelled stand with a multi-profiled, rising stand ring and very finely ornamented, open-worked rim. The stand framed by delicate, engraved moulded lines, with a paw cross in relief and a crucifix over a hatched ground in matching curved cartouches. Corresponding baluster shaft with six folded edges, the centre with a pressed, slightly humped, floral and geometrically decorated nodus with six so-called rotuli, set with diamond-shaped carnelians. The shaft surrounded by cross decoration and a luminous blue enamelled ground. The cylindrical rock crystal reliquary above and below a flower-shaped base accentuated with set rock crystal and carnelian cabochons, merging into an architectural crown in the form of a conical spire. At the top is a small crucifix flanked by St John the Apostle and Mary. One stone missing. Damaged; total weight 1230 g. H. 54 cm. The six-sided stand and the canted shaft follow the type of communion chalices and monstrances that were already common in the 15th century. Comparable cylindrical reliquary monstrances can be found in The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Maryland, inv. no. 53.51, in the Louvre, Paris, inv. no. OA 7752 and in the Augustinermuseum, Freiburg, inv. no. 11720.Cf. Seyderhelm, Goldschmiedekunst des Mittelalters, cat. no. 105 (Stand und Standring); cat. of the Cologne Museum of Decorative Arts, Rheinischer Silberschatz, p. 23, fig. 11; Seling, vol. II, fig. 12 (Ostensorium). A museum probably South German Gothic gilt silver, partly enamelled and rock crystal monstrance reliquaire. Cracked. Probably South German. 16th century.