Flemish Renaissance Reliquary Silver; partially... Lot 36

Flemish Renaissance Reliquary Silver; partially gilded. Cylindrical vessel with two final chased and godroned hooded lids with surrounding filigree finials; in the throat in each case six set coloured stones in square gilded box mounts. The expositorium held by two hinged clasps on two sides. Marks: BZ Bruges with year letter Z, probably for 1607, MZ Adriaen Lyns sr. (from 1597, cf. Stuyck no. 874, 1024/1025), tremolo engraving. L 26 cm. Bruges, Adriaen Lyns sr., 1607. Literature Cf. a very similar reliquary in the holdings of the Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur de Bruges (illustrated in cat. De Sint-Salvatorskatedraal te Brugge Inventaris, in: Kunst Patrimonium van West-Vlaanderen, Amsterdam 1979, vol. 8, p. 230, no. 377). See also a monstrance with a comparable reliquary in the Louvre collection (Numéro principal OA 7752).