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With gable top. The two sides are each pierced with two cusped circles fitted with openwork iron plates. At one end is a round-headed iron grating, pierced with lozenges, and at the other is a grating of similar style having a pointed top and fitted as a door. The top is painted on one side with the Virgin and child and Saint Anthony the Abbot, and on the other with Saint Anthony visiting Saint Paul the Hermit in the desert; along the ridge and down the sides of the top is brass cresting pierced with Gothic ornament and surmounted by bosses.  \r\n","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oak","id":"AAT12264"},{"text":"iron","id":"AAT11002"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting","id":"x30598"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"oak, iron, painting","categories":[{"text":"Containers","id":"THES48972"},{"text":"Woodwork","id":"THES48877"},{"text":"Medieval and renaissance","id":"THES271264"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2025PF7611","2025PF7616","2025PF7615","2025PF7614","2025PF7613","2025PF7612","2025PF7610","2025PF7609","2025PF7608","2017JR6104","2016JB1716","2017JR6102","2017JR6103","2025PF7617"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES299176"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"chasse","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1475-1499","earliest":"1475-01-01","latest":"1499-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"53","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"64.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"26","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Taken from department file:\r\nH 1ft 8.87in x L 2.12ft x W 10.25in (feet and inches)\r\nH 53cm x L 64.62cm x W 26.03cm (centimetres)","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This object is No.38 in Peyre Inventory, 1895. See file S.F. 134. Purchased for £25.\n\nThe scene of Saint Anthony visiting Saint Paul is probably derived from one  depicted on a large painted linen cloth that hung at one time in the abbey of  Saint Antoine de Viennoisin Dauphine, famed in the middle Ages for relics of  Saint Anthony. The scenes on the cloth, representing the life history of St.  Anthony, were copied by the then prior for convenience into book form. This illuminated manuscript was completed in 1426 and this copy is at present in the Malta public library in Valletta. Subsequently a copy of it was made and presented to Pope Eugenius in about 1432 which was sold to the Medici family and is now in the Laurentian Library in Florence amongst their collection of manuscripts. Both contained 196 scenes originally.  \n\r\nOne of the scenes (Folio LXXXVII Scene 171) represents the meetings of Saint  Anthony with Saint Paul, during which a raven, which has fed Saint Paul in the  Wilderness for 60 years by bringing him a loaf every day, brings on this occasion  two loaves, one for him and one for his guest. The picture-book version appears to have been influential and several extant pictures bear more than a casual resemblance to it. \n\r\nThe version on the reliquary is very comparable to the Valletta M.S. in that the raven is apparently diving vertically with the two loaves in its beak.  Whereas the saints are seated one on either side of a stream in the M.S., on the reliquary they appear seated beside a stone fountain-head upon which is placed a chalice. The fountain and chalice also appear in a large picture of the School of Cologne, dating from the end of the 15th century, depicting a series of scenes in the life of Saint Anthony. This painting is now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.  \n\r\n Another comparable version, painted in enamels by Leonard Limousin in 1536, now in the British Museum, includes the 'Tau' cross on Saint Anthony's shoulder as does the reliquary figure.  The 'Tau' cross symbol, the origin of which is obscure but in all probability derived from the saint's staff, was adopted at St. Antoine in the late 12th century. \n\r\n 1) See ill. London: Roxburghe Club. Life of Saint Anthony. Valletta M.S. edited by Rose Graham, 1957. P1.Lx. bottom. (93.DD.1h)  \r\n2) Ibid. see 111.P1.Lx1v.  See also:- Archaeologia, Vol.LXXXIII,1955 (PP.2h.C,D.)  c.f. Ceremonial banner, Mus No.781-189h. \n\r\n\r\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Oak, painted gable top, pierced sides; French, 1475-99, 20 7/8\" x 24 1/8\", BVM & Christ. 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