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A Mid Eighteenth Century Silver and Silver Filigree Reliquary Cross.
Over a wooden corpus. Latin cross with a frame of finely wrought filigree, the cross terminals decorated with foiled coloured stones in capsule settings. In the centre a high oval expositorium with a small bone relic of St. Bernard of Clairveaux with cedula ‘Skt. Bernardi Abb.’.
The other relics formerly present in the embroidered decoration of the crossbeam have been lost.
Length with bail 31; Width 15 cm.
Marks of Georg Peter Eder, circa 1730/40.
For auction at Lempertz, Koln, Gemany. Lot 576. 15 November 2024.
https://www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/lot/1253-1/576-erdinger-reliquienkreuz.html
Literature -
On Eder see Sigfrid Hofmann, Archivalische Nachrichten über Goldschmiedearbeiten in Oberbayern, in: Mitteilungen für die Heimatpflege in Oberbayern, issue 8, 1956.
For more on this maker see also Frankenburger, Die
Landshuter Goldschmiede, p. 160.
BZ Erding, MZ Georg Peter Eder (1724 - 1743).
Georg Peter Eder, um 1730/40.
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for comparison -
Filigree in Museeums Landschaft Hessen Kassell. Part 2.
A Jewelled Casket.
https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/10/filigree-in-museeums-landschaft-hessen.html
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