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Wood carved insets featuring a low-relief of Madonna and Child in circular reserve surrounded by a medallion featuring eleven saints with a Slavic script, under glass enclosed in a six point star brass case with red and aqua paste (?) gems, tracery motif.
reliquaries
brass (alloy)
carving (processes)
paste (glass)
wood (plant material)
glass (material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
religions (concept)
saints
stars
Container, Ritual
Reliquary
Carved
Madonna
Christ
Saint
Religion
Star
Brass
Paste Gem
Reliquary
Holt, Hamilton, 1872-1951
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Unknown
4 1/2 x 2 7/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.620
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