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| Keywords: French - Phylactery - Walters 53139 - Side B.jpg 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 altar Relics were placed under the five large convex crystals which acted as magnifying glasses century 13 Medieval engraved copper with gilding rock crystals and cabachons cm 19 19 4 1 accession number 53 139 31506 Joseph Brummer New York Joseph Brummer Sale Parke-Bernet Galleries New York May 12 1949 no 383 Walters Art Museum 1949 by purchase Museum purchase 1949 Magic Black and White An Exhibition of Black and White Magic Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University Baltimore 1960 Reliquaries and Ritual Medieval Objects of Devotion The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984-1985 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
