ON HOLD Incredible 19th C. Monastery Work Reliquary with Painted Saint and Elaborate Ornamentation grey brown which I believe is what

which I believe is what this is

It's definitely got an aura

perhaps especially that blue elephant with long trunk and the long yellow beak of the bird

they do show plenty of wear

head turned straight back

ON HOLD Incredible 19th C. Monastery Work Reliquary with Painted Saint and Elaborate Ornamentation grey brown which I believe is whatThis 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