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A reliquary tableau with five illuminated miniatures, a papal wax seal, and twelve saints’ relics
c. 1500-20, assembled in Spain (perhaps Andalusia) in c. 1600
Southern Netherlands
pigments, ink and gilding on parchment, bones, wood, coiled silver and gold wire, blue glass beads and yellow silk on linen stiffened with size
23.8 x 18 cm overall; the wax seal 4.6 x 3.5 cm; the miniatures c. 7 x 5 cm
