ON HOLD Incredible 19th C. Monastery Work Reliquary with Painted Saint and Elaborate Ornamentation wooden lion stamp It measures 8 1/2" tall

It measures 8 1/2" tall x 7" wide

I really love the white head of the one pin stuck in it too

These are joined together by a woven seam

and making the martyrdom of this Jesus feel especially immediate and visceral

4 1/2" tall x 2 1/4" wide x 7/8" deep and carved on both sides

ON HOLD Incredible 19th C. Monastery Work Reliquary with Painted Saint and Elaborate Ornamentation wooden lion stamp It measures 8 1/2" tallThis amazing thing, what a piece of work! I'm not at all an expert on reliquaries, but certainly that is what this is, holding small relics of S. Asteria and S. Modesti, both martyrs as indicated by the M's following their names. (The relics themselves appear most likely to be the small bits of cloth under the handwritten labels bearing their names, though it's a but hard to tell given all that is packed in and woven together here! At the center is a