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Historical Archive: Reliquary Icon

frame: silver gilt on wood, Constantinople 11th/12th c.
Nativity ivory: Venice?, 12th/13th c.
conversion to reliquary with horn: 14th/15th-c. Germany
26.3 x 24 cm. Louvre OA 11399


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full reliquary icon
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Nativity ivory
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frame top: Peter, Mary, relics
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frame left side: relics and label under horn
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frame right side: relics and labels under horn
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frame bottom: Simon, relics, Thomas