Skull Of Saint Clair Martyr In A Hunting Showcase - Germany 18th Century

Xceptional reliquary hunt, in carved and gilded wood, honoring the emblematic relics of Saint Clair, whose entire skull is covered with gauze and an abundant arrangement of golden threads and pearls. Which montage protects and redraws the face of our Holy Man. A crown of braided laurels, symbol of the martyrs, is placed on its head.
On the bottom of this reliquary, accompanying the relic in His Holiness, a pelican in Glory, represents His love in Christic mysticism. Our skull rests on red velvet, the symbolic color of Christ. This is probably the presumed Saint Clair, Benedictine priest and martyr of the year 884. Popular tradition tells us that “a noble woman pursued him with her assiduities, he had to flee again. He found refuge in a hermitage on the banks of the Epte. Furious at having been rejected, the woman sends her soldiers to kill him. The soldiers decapitated him on November 4, 884, took his head and immersed it in the fountain located near his hermitage. Since then, this fountain has had the reputation of working miracles.” Source Nominis

Numerous seals from the Freising region in Germany guarantee the inviolability of this reliquary.
Dimensions of 53 cm long by 44 cm high 35 cm
deep A crack in a window - Some gaps - Traces of old wormholes.