"18th Century Monstrance, Sterling Silver, Probably Austria-hungary, Monstrance, Around 1750"
Majestic monstrance or monstrance from the Louis XV period in solid silver and small garnets cut into bunches of grapes. Entirely made in embossed silver and partially gilded with decorations of ears of wheat, bunches of grapes, heads of cherubs, etc. Fairly solid in construction with some old tin repairs which cannot be seen from the front but from the back. Very probably a central European work, Austro- Hungarian Empire around 1750.Later lunula (around 1900). Weight grams