ON HOLD Incredible 19th C. Monastery Work Reliquary with Painted Saint and Elaborate Ornamentation gentleman's flask Framed as found: 8 1/2”

Framed as found: 8 1/2” x 5 7/16”

There is a small tear in the paper along the top

6 1/2" in diameter x 2 1/4" t and in very good condition

Signed on the bottom "Lapid Israel" and "D"

it occurs to me how deeply embedded is our tendency toward linear organization

ON HOLD Incredible 19th C. Monastery Work Reliquary with Painted Saint and Elaborate Ornamentation gentleman's flask Framed as found: 8 1/2”This amazing thing, what a piece of work! I'm not at all an expert on reliquaries, but certainly that is what this is, holding small relics of S. Asteria and S. Modesti, both martyrs as indicated by the M's following their names. (The relics themselves appear most likely to be the small bits of cloth under the handwritten labels bearing their names, though it's a but hard to tell given all that is packed in and woven together here! At the center is a