Company Of The Blessed Sacrament, 17th-century Bas-relief

A limestone bas-relief sculpture with an architectural form reminiscent of a building. Beneath a Gothic vault is a sun-shaped monstrance flanked by two candlesticks. The perimeter of the ogive is adorned with stylized flowers, the inscription “Stone dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament,” a cross, and a figure in relief. On the edge of this 6-cm-thick sculpture, there is also a recessed cross and two other figures.
It comes from a village in the Doubs department of Franche-Comté, where the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament was active until 1666, when Louis XIV decided to dissolve it.
Some research has revealed that in certain villages in the Franche-Comté region, brotherhoods marked public spaces by having stones or bas-reliefs engraved—depicting the Sacred Heart or Eucharistic symbols—directly on the walls of homes or chapels.