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Chalice or reliquary (Detail)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Unknown location

S/n

Pearls;ivory;silver

Standing Virgin and Child; Child seated on the Virgin's left arm; crown. Saint James the Greater with rosary. Saint Catherine of Alexandria with broken wheel and sword. Saint Martha with a basket (?).
Monsters.

Ludorff 1897: Gothic.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
Metalwork engraved and decorated with filigree and pearls.

Provenance
From the manor of Hülshoff (Roxel-Hülshoff über Münster), property of Freiherr von Droste-Hülshoff (in 1897).

Bibliography
A. Ludorff, Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler Westfalens (Münster, 1897), V: Kreis Münster-Land, p. 159, pl. 101. Fully accessible online at http://archive.org/details/bauundkunstdenkm07ludouoft.

Image

Out of copyright. From A. Ludorff, Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler Westfalens (Münster, 1897).

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