Reliquary Bust

Description

Culture: [Medieval](http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0gjgrsxwzx) Materials: wood, rock crystal. Dims: H30.5 x W (at base) 26.7. Accession no: HCM 006 Current Location: [The Hunt Museum](https://www.huntmuseum.com/) [Limerick](https://www.geonames.org/7778675/limerick-city.html). This wooden reliquary bust of a cleric has a tonsured head. The bust is polychrome with a rock crystal set in the head beneath which a [relic](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300250795) would have been visible. [More](https://www.huntmuseum.com/explore/item/63f7d4e7-5d07-3c62-8311-da797236184b/?s%3Dreliquary&pos=3).