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Hanger
Also titled Pendant
c. 1525 - c. 1600
- Medium
- wood (plant material)
- Classification
- jewellery
- Dimensions
- height 28 mm x width 13 mm x depth 12 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Backer Stichting
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This ornament – a so-called miniature lantern – was used for private meditation. On each of its four sides, the worshipper could contemplate a key moment in the life of Christ: the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Adoration of the Magi and the Crucifixion.
