Haute Epoque, An Exceptional Silver Reliquary Shrine with a Relic for the Saints of Argona, Cordoba, Spain, 1630-1660. (L:6.4 x H:21.5 cm)

Haute Epoque, An Exceptional Silver Reliquary Shrine with a Relic for the Saints of Argona, Cordoba, Spain, 1630-1660.

Silver reliquary shrine.

A triangular trapezoidal reliquary case, finished with an openwork frame and mounted with three C-shaped forms converging to a crucifix.

With a bone relic for the Saints of Argona (Saint Bonosus and Saint Maximian).

The base is decorated with a characteristic lobed cut, as only known on a few 17th-century candlesticks from Cordoba.

With the inscription at the bottom: 'Este Reliquaes dello Santos de Argona' (This relic belongs to the Saints of Argona).

Silver, unmarked, silver tested.

Probably Cordoba.

Spain, 1630-1660.

Provenance: Chiaramonte Bordonaro Collection, Palermo

Literature: César Gonzaléz Zamora, Plata y Bronces en la coleccion Bordonaro, Tomo II (Silver and bronzes in the Bordonaro collection. Volume II), Caligrama, Spain, 2021, pg. 222-223, inventory number 204.

Estimate:

€ 2.000 - € 3.000

Auction date

Tuesday, 13 January 2026 16u00 (CET)

Dimensions

L:6.4 x H:21.5 cm

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