"Reliquary Of Saint Barbara's Paperolles - Circa 1800"
In a remarkable montage of rolled and gilded papers, representing a complete altarpiece, we find in the center, a medallion in Glory, presenting a relic of Saint Barbara, Martyr. Saint Barbara or Barara, martyr of the 3rd century, is today in France, the Patron Saint of firefighters.
This type of reliquary representing a monstrance could be the work of the Ursulines.
It is a work of the end of the 18th or the very beginning of the 19th.
The whole is of quality and in excellent condition, in a simple frame of well-preserved gilded wood.
Dimensions of 37 cm by 31 and 8 cm deep
Given the fragility of paperolle montages, this piece cannot travel by postal parcel.
Reference 305
Le Magazine de PROANTIC
TRÉSORS Magazine
Rivista Artiquariato