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Although never officially canonised, he is recognised as a saint, as the Holy See approved his cult for Carthusians in 1514, and this was extended to the Universial Church in 1674. He is usually portrayed in Carthusian habit holding a lily and with a skull. Although somewhat neo-classical in style, and so likely to date from the early  nineteenth century, the present figure is stylistically related to seventeenth- century Spanish and Portuguese sculpture in wood, such as the work of Manuel  Pereira (1588-1683), whose life-size  polychromed wood figure of St Bruno was made for the Carthusian monastery of Miraflores outside Burgos before 1635.","physicalDescription":"Ivory statuette on wood base of St Bruno. The saint, wearing a Carthusian habit, stands, resting on his left leg, his right leg stepping forward. His right arm and hand are outstretched with open palm, his left arm is stretched out with a clasped hand, perhaps originally holding a lily. The mitre is placed on the base at his feet. The wood base rests on four ivory bun feet; an ivory scroll fixed to the base is inscribed. Some fingers are broken off; an object (probably a skull) missing from the left corner of the base. A paper label inscribed '40' is stuck onto the back of the base. 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