Circa 1700, likely Spanish or Italian, carved wood with polychrome and gilt decoration over gesso, liturgical robe and mitre with ornate scrolling brocade design to clothing, central cavity with glass front tondo for reliquary, presented atop a gilt wood socle, later ink inscriptions to underside, and numbered to verso.


22 3/4 x 8 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.

Private Collection, Roanoke, Virginia

Former Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Penn, Reidsville, NC

Leland Little Auctions, Historic Chinqua Penn Auction, April 25th, 2012, Lot 106.

Some scattered fragments to interior; crack to socle; areas of old insect damage; some gesso, gilt and polychrome losses; chipping to edges.