2-721-319 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Reliquary, 1497, (1881). Etching of a reliquary (a container for the relics of saints), made in Italy in the late 15th century, possibly by Cristoforus de Luca. This example is of gilt bronze, inscribed 'Hoc opus. fecit. fieri. Xtoforus. de .Luca. 1497' around the base. From "The South Kensington Museum", a book of engraved illustrations, with descriptions, of the works of art in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (formerly known as the South Kensington Museum). [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1881]