Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . Fig. 28.—Reliquary, Sens large crystals en cabochon, and the stem, which is also of giltcopper, stands 12 inches high. In the treasury of Notre Dame at Tongres is a veryremarkable reliquary containing a portion of the Holy Plati: X\RELIMUARV IX l-ORM OF A SHRIXE, IX THE V. AND A. MUSEUM RELIQUARIES 121 This is a piece of oak 11^ inches by 9 inches, covered withsheets of gilt copper, having three little knobs at the topthrough which a cord is passed, by which it is suspended fromthe bearers neck whe
Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . Fig. 28.—Reliquary, Sens large crystals en cabochon, and the stem, which is also of giltcopper, stands 12 inches high. In the treasury of Notre Dame at Tongres is a veryremarkable reliquary containing a portion of the Holy Plati: X\RELIMUARV IX l-ORM OF A SHRIXE, IX THE V. AND A. MUSEUM RELIQUARIES 121 This is a piece of oak 11^ inches by 9 inches, covered withsheets of gilt copper, having three little knobs at the topthrough which a cord is passed, by which it is suspended fromthe bearers neck when carried in processions ; on the borderare ten square enamels representing the ten first bishops ofTongres, alternating with engravings of the following subjects :Moses ; the Levites ; the Vision of Constantine ; Chosroes,King of Persia, restoring the Cross to Heraclius ; the twoIsraelites returning with the bunch of grapes from the Landof Promise ; Elijah the Tishbite ; the Woman of Sarepta ; theSacrifice of Abraham ; and the Serpent in the this border and the shutters, which conceal the relic,are two mouldings, one of which bears this inscription :— PONTIFICES MERVIT HOS INCLITA TONGRIS HABEREDONEC EAM POTVIT HVNNORVM GENS ABOLERE; and the other, separated from it by an ornamental borde
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