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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 8349966, member: 96898"]Looks like an early modern Catholic pendant. These were often souvenirs from local places of pilgrimage. Stylistically, it looks 17th/18th century to me, but it could be a bit older or younger.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse shows Mary as queen of heaven flanked by two incense burners. The crown, long hair, pallium, and the radiate halo (a reference to Revelations 12:1) are iconographic giveaways.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse shows a sunburst monstrance on an altar, flanked by two incense burners, with the host contained by it turned into the crucified Christ. This type of image, which is iconographically related to the Mass of Saint Gregory, is quite common in late medieval and early modern devotional art.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 8349966, member: 96898"]Looks like an early modern Catholic pendant. These were often souvenirs from local places of pilgrimage. Stylistically, it looks 17th/18th century to me, but it could be a bit older or younger. The obverse shows Mary as queen of heaven flanked by two incense burners. The crown, long hair, pallium, and the radiate halo (a reference to Revelations 12:1) are iconographic giveaways. The reverse shows a sunburst monstrance on an altar, flanked by two incense burners, with the host contained by it turned into the crucified Christ. This type of image, which is iconographically related to the Mass of Saint Gregory, is quite common in late medieval and early modern devotional art.[/QUOTE]
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