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Inventory number: CVH 338/32
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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