Design for a ciborium or reliquary (?)

Inventory number: CVH 338/32
Bollaert & Moortgat

Design for a ciborium or reliquary (?), consisting of a sort of bowl with straight sides and chamfered corners, and a base; at the front, on the wall, a bishop is depicted in a medallion; the bowl is closed off with a semi-circular lid on which stands a cylindrical box, as it were, with a pelican and a cross on top. At the bottom, in the base, a sheaf of corn is depicted.

Artist:

Jan-Baptist Verberckt the Elder

Dating:

unknown

Material:

Chalk, sanguine on paper

Dimensions:

320 x 201 mm

Marks :

Inscription on the reverse.

Place:

Plantin-Moretus-Museum, Antwerp

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