Reliquary with paperolles of oval form with central decorati - Lot 230

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Reliquary with paperolles of oval form with central decorati - Lot 230
Reliquary with paperolles of oval form with central decoration of a white flower in fabric, shells and foliage. It contains fourteen relics of saints separated by bands of orange cardboard decorated with friezes of pearls ending with shells and cut papers indicating the name of the saints from which the elements come: ex. Sepulero of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Henry, St. Isidore the Worker, St. Philomena, St. Ludovico, St. Louis Gonzaga, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, St. Joseph. Gilded metal frame decorated with friezes of pearls and leaves. On the back sealing the reliquary, a wax seal with the coat of arms of Bishop Jean-Joseph Louis Robert (1819-1900), bishop of Marseille from 1878 to 1900. The blazon of Gules, a Paschal lamb passant, head contourned and capped with a cruciferous nimbus Or, surmounted by a palm tree Vert endatted Or, planted on a terrace of the third enamel and adextré in chief of a monogram of Christ Or. France, Late 19th century H. 17,2 - L. 14,5 - D. 3 cm Bibliography: Tausin Henri, Armorial des cardinaux, archevêques et évêques contemporains de France, Retaux-Bray, Libraire-Editeur, 1886, blazon described and reproduced p. 127.
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