MAKE A MEME View Large Image French - Reliquary for a Finger Bone - Walters 57690.jpg Three angels elevate the hollow glass cylinder of this reliquary a type of dramatic display reliquary that became popular in the late Middle Ages Inside is the relic of an unknown ...
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Keywords: French - Reliquary for a Finger Bone - Walters 57690.jpg Three angels elevate the hollow glass cylinder of this reliquary a type of dramatic display reliquary that became popular in the late Middle Ages Inside is the relic of an unknown saint a small fragment of a bone possibly from a finger wrapped in a piece of cloth century 15 Late Medieval silver gilded copper glass textile human bone cm 22 5 8 4 8 4 accession number 57 690 16102 Michel Boy Paris by purchase Sale Hotel Drouot Paris May 15 1905 no 661 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1905 Reliquaries and Ritual Medieval Objects of Devotion The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984-1985 place of origin Flanders Belgium Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Limoges champlevé Medieval reliquaries Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review
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