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Head reliquary (Front)

Head reliquary (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Mantua, Museo Diocesano Francesco Gonzaga

Inv. 104

Ivory (head);silver (base and miter);gems;mother-of-pearl.

Height: 125mm
Width: 85mm (total)

Head of a bishop.
German inscriptions in Gothic script (meaningless).

Museum's opinion 2013: German, 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Bequest of Ciro Ferrari in 1985.

Bibliography
P. Venturelli, Ori e Avori (Mantua, 2012), no. 89.


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