Lid for the reliquary box 1985.52.2023 .1. Made from textile and oval in shape. The box contains a saints' relics, Agnus Dei, and a figure framed behind glass. [ASh [OPS move] 30/1/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Lid for the reliquary box 1985.52.2023 .1. Made from textile and oval in shape. The box contains a saints' relics, Agnus Dei, and a figure framed behind glass. [ASh [OPS move] 30/1/2017]
Long description: Amulet, oval textile reliquary box [.1], containing saints' relics, Agnus Dei, and a figure framed behind glass, and a detachable lid [.2]. In the relic box [.1] there is a figure of the ?Virgin Mary in the centre, surrounded by scrolls of orange coloured paper with gold edges, and then four relics. Over the top of each relic there is a strip of paper; one has 'Agnus Dei' printed on it, another has 'Relique' written in ink on it, and the other two have saints' names written on them. This is all framed behind a panel of glass. The exterior of the box [.1] and the lid [.2] are covered in a different textile; the the box covered in a red ?silk brocade textile which is very worn in places, and the lid is covered in a woven cotton textile. Each is edged with copper alloy metal thread. [RB 02/07/2012]
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France; Paris
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Wellcome Institute; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1931
Date collected: By 1931
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1985
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Glass, Material Paper Plant, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Silk Textile Animal, Process Woven, Process Brocaded Woven, Process Inscribed, Process Printed, Process Coiled
Dimensions: Width: max 38 mm, Length: max 49 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1985.52.2023.2 Other numbers: 4089

Search terms: Religion, Box, Figure, Writing, Amulet, Religious Object, Lid, Inscription