Offered by Floris van Wanroij Fine Art
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Old master painting, sculpture & works of art from the Haute Epoque period
Relic Shrine
Italy | Possibly Florence
Baroque | Third quarter of the 17th Century
Ebony veneer | Gilded bronze | Rock crystal | With three Episcopal seals verso
H. 26 cm. W. 38cm. D. 16 cm.
PROVENANCE
Collection F.E.G. Lingg | Oss | The Netherlands | With inventory card | Nr. R.3 | As South Netherlandish 17th Century
CATALOGUE NOTE
This fine ebony veneer relic shrine of architectural design, adorned with refined gilded bronze and typical spiral-turned Solomonic-columns made out of rock crystal was most likely produced in a Florentine workshop. The shrine clearly shows influence of the refined object d’art produced at the illustrious Grand Ducal workshops known as the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, (the ‘Workshop of semi-precious stones’) in Florence in the second half of the 17th Century.
