A Remarkable17th Century Silver Filigree Monstrance.
Cathedral Treasury, Novara, Piedmont, Italy.
Height 62 Cms.
https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/0100030942
They say -
The monstrance is mentioned for the first time in the
inventory of 1764, drawn up on the occasion of the pastoral visit of Msgr.
Balbis Bertone (Bishop of Novara) to the cathedral. This same inventory reports the news that the
object reached the basilica following the donation of Mons. Maraviglia, bishop
of Novara from 1667 to 1684.
We do not know the author of the work, to be certainly placed in the Lombard area, in the second half of the seventeenth century, and in any case not later than 1684, given the donor origin of Bishop Maraviglia.
For comparisons with other filigree objects in the Lombard area, see the
seventeenth-century reliquary of S. Agnese now in the Museo del Duomo in Milan,
but also the rock crystal monstrance with silver filigree parts, donated by the
Novara bishop himself to the basilica of San Gaudenzio ( G. Rosa, The minor
arts, in "History of Milan", vol. X, Milan 1957, pp. 829-858;
Treasury and museum of the cathedral of Milan, Milan 1978, p. 72; paper card
no. 274 of M. Dell'Omo Novara 1977 ).
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