POST MEDIEVAL SILVER VOTIVE MOUNT GROUP 18th-19th century AD A mixed group of sheet silver votive items comprising: a miniature nimbate figure with book formed from repoussé sheets; a repoussé eye with pierced frame above; a male figure with tremello detailing; an ear; a human face with tremello detailing; a heart with incised cross; a leg with trello border and cross; a hand, with thumb stretched; a hand with repoussé detailing, transverse cuff; Italian workmanship. 36 grams total, 23-96 mm (1 - 3 3/4"). Fine condition. [9, No Reserve] Provenance Property of a Maida Vale gentleman; acquired in the 1980s. Footnotes These votives were customarily hung from or attached to religious icons. The replica body parts were intended as requests for healing of the corresponding area of the supplicant's body.
POST MEDIEVAL SILVER VOTIVE MOUNT GROUP 18th-19th century AD A mixed group of sheet silver votive items comprising: a miniature nimbate figure with book formed from repoussé sheets; a repoussé eye with pierced frame above; a male figure with tremello detailing; an ear; a human face with tremello detailing; a heart with incised cross; a leg with trello border and cross; a hand, with thumb stretched; a hand with repoussé detailing, transverse cuff; Italian workmanship. 36 grams total, 23-96 mm (1 - 3 3/4"). Fine condition. [9, No Reserve] Provenance Property of a Maida Vale gentleman; acquired in the 1980s. Footnotes These votives were customarily hung from or attached to religious icons. The replica body parts were intended as requests for healing of the corresponding area of the supplicant's body.
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