[NUMBER 457] [NUMBER 458] 457 BOX OF AGNUS DEI OF SILVER-GILT AND TRANSLUCENT ENAMEL GERMAN, 16TH CENTURY Circular in form. On the front in blue enamel the Crucifixion; on the back in green enamel, the mystie Lamb. Both gilded and surrounded by elaborate frames of chiselled silver with exquisite compositions of deer and birds amongst archaie foliations. The box surmounted by a gilded bail with trilobar ring which controls the opening device. Dioneter, 21/2 inches Described and illustrated as the terminal vignette in « La Collection Spitzer », Paris, 1890, vol. 1, p. 151, No. 185. From the Spitzer legacies. [SEE ILLUSTRATION] 200
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