Beautiful rectangular reliquary in length, with old red background, presenting, embedded in an unorganized lace of paperoles with a gilded edge, a small statue of the Virgin in bread or biscuit, and about fifteen relics under handwritten papers.
God will recognize his own, as we used to say.... sympathetic first names: Modeste, Eulalie, Marin, Anthoine, Innocent, Fortuné....
Convent work, France, late 17th or early 18th century.
Fairly beautiful gilt frame, from the period, which seems to have been opened in the past, probably to change a broken glass.
Dimensions: Frame 26cm x 18cm x 3.5cm.
Condition: Good condition, but with imperfections: dust under glass, clogging on frame (lower left corner), statuette of Virgin broken in two.
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