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Reliquary Bust

A wooden reliquary bust of a cleric with a tonsured head. The bust is polychrome with a rock crystal set in the head beneath which a relic would have been visible. Reliquaries in the shape of a head were common during the medieval periodand would have contained relics.

Culture: Medieval Materials: wood, rock crystal. Dims: H30.5 x W (at base) 26.7. Accession no: HCM 006 Current Location: The Hunt…

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Creator

  • The Hunt Museum

Subject

  • Cultural Heritage & History
  • reliquary
  • relic
  • Reading culture (devotional)
  • wooden sculptures
  • Reading culture (medieval)
  • Middle Ages
  • religious objects
  • relics
  • religious visual works
  • statues
  • sculpture (visual works)
  • Middle Ages

Type of item

  • 3D

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