The Wellby Collection
Browse Collection
27 of 499
Click to hide image
Reliquary Saint
parcel-silver-gilt, blue-enamel
1500-20 or 1840-1900
47 cm height
Provenance: Sir Julius Wernher, Bath House, London; Sir Harold Wernher, Luton Hoo; Wernher sale, Christie's London, 5 July 2000 (Sale 6293, lot 15)
Place of Creation: Europe
WA2013.1.24
Parcel-gilt-silver figure of a Saint (St Ivo?), or an ecclesiastic, or lawyer holding a reliquary with rock-crystal (?) windows. The octagonal base has gothic arches, backed with blue enamel. Origin probably European, 19th century.
Literature: Works of art from the Wernher Collection, Christie's London Sale 6293 (London, 5 July 2000), p. lot 15
Bequeathed by Michael Wellby, 2012.