Reliquary Bust

A wooden reliquary bust of a cleric with a tonsured head. The bust is polychrome with a rock crystal set in the head beneath which a relic would have been visible. Reliquaries in the shape of a head were common during the medieval periodand would have contained relics.

Culture: Medieval Materials: wood, rock crystal. Dims: H30.5 x W (at base) 26.7. Accession no: HCM 006 Current Location: The Hunt…