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English: he Reliquary Cross is a small (29.8 × 12.5 cm) French metalwork sculpture dated c. 1180, now in The Cloisters museum in New York. The reliquary cross is double armed, and made from silver gilt, crystal and twisted wire, with embossed rosettes, and a wood core. It contains six sequences of engravings, on either side of the shaft, and on the four sides of the lower arms. These were intended to identify the relics contained within.
Date circa 1180
date QS:P,+1180-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/474199
Author Made in Limoges, France
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