SACRED GEOMETERY-RELIQUARY Carved olive wood, nails, pen nibs, relic, wax, mica, pottery, coin, shell. Ethiopian and Coptic bindings 8 x 10.5 x 1.75 inches
Do you want to buy an Orthodox reliquary? The Catalog of the Convent offers containers for holy relics. The items are made using a diversity of materials and techniques
Container for holy relics
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The reliquary, characterized along the shaft by a thick decoration called "repoussè", was probably produced at the time of the wedding of the emperor Andronicus III of Byzantium Palaeologus to Giovanna di Savoia (who then adopted the name of Anna). Shortly thereafter it was placed in the church of the Genoese colony who, since 1273, had settled in the Constantinopolitan suburb of Pera.
Stoneware sculpture reliquary, black and white with metallic gold glaze, hand sculpted and painted
Beckett's reliquery
This container for the precious remains of a saint adopts the form of the relics it likely once held—fragments of a saint’s arm. When the reliquary was set on an altar, the sacred bones could be perceived in the two windows, once covered with crystal, which are cut into the silver
This precious reliquary, adorned on its front and sides with colored glass, precious stones, and two medallions featuring the enthroned Virgin and Child and an eagle, forms part of a group of closely
Reliquary Bust, Unknown, Flanders, Brabant, circa 1510, Sculpture, Polychromed and gilded wood with hinged, fabric-lined lid on top of head.
c. 1200
Date: ca. 1366–1400. Geography: Made in the Marches, Italy. Culture: Italian. Medium: Translucent enamel, silver, silver-gilt, rock crystal, glass, iron t...
I'm thinking about making some ceramic shrines and reliquaries this summer, so I've been doing some research on the subject. Here are so...
Cleaning Chateau de Ghetto is not unlike Christmas morning: there’s always some hitherto unknown treat to be found under any given pile of crap. Last week’s pre-parental visit scrub dow…
Casket; copper-gilt; enamelled; gabled roof; front: three Magi on horseback; chest section: Magi advancing towards Virgin and Child; ends: full-length saint within mandorla; back: roof and chest decorated with enamel quatrefoils with reserved partitions; feet: front: gilt and decorated with engraved foliate scrolls; sides and back decorated with cross-hatching; crest: pierced with key hole shapes; front decorated with three enamelled medallions; plain back.
Ancient temples to dreaming gods that predate Great Zorisz can be found scattered around the hinterlands of the Principalities of Black Sphinx Bay. Forgotten in the jungles and swamps east of Khalefteg is this sturdy structure dedicated to a once-popular local toad-like goddess of leadership, rain, and nature. Lost Reliquary (300 dpi promotional - no…
Reliquary in the form of a small church, copper-alloy with champlevé enamel and gilt copper figures, Limoges, France, about 1200-1250
The Reliquary is a fictional, magical item that appears in Anastasia. It belonged to Rasputin, and was used by him as an aid to kill the Romanov family. The Reliquary is an eight inch fancy, glass vial. The Reliquary hangs from a golden rope that is tied around Rasputin's waist. It hangs at his...
Kushan period, about 2nd century
