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Lot 22 Dα

A reliquary pendant with the Agnus Dei Lombardy, late 16th C.

Auction 1237 - overview Cologne
16.11.2023, 10:00 - Stained Glass from four Centuries
Estimate: 1.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.268 € (incl. premium)
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A reliquary pendant with the Agnus Dei
Lombardy, late 16th C.

Glass painted on reverse in eglomisé technique with opaque and lustrous pigments, etched gold leaf, tin leaf. The underside of the glass with a chip in the upper left, minor moisture damage. In the original silver frame engraved with the Virgin Mary's monogram on the reverse, H 7.7, W 4.7 cm.

The Bavarian National Museum houses a reliquary capsule with a depiction of the Crucifixion that is highly similar to this octagonal vermeil pendant with a dentile surround and central convex glazed reliquary (inv. no. 55/192). The piece in the Bavarian National Museum is tentatively attributed to "Northern Italy (?), second half 16th century".

Provenance

Auctioned by Dorotheum, Vienna, October 2011.

Literature

Illus. in Steiner, Goldglanz und Silberpracht – Hinterglasmalerei aus vier Jahrhunderten, Berlin-Munich 2015, no. 10.
See also Steingräber, Alter Schmuck, Munich 1956, p. 125, no. 209.