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Figure of Christ from a Deposition Group

This group probably originates from a reliquary chasse or altarpiece. The English attribution is based upon comparisons with excavated metalwork and manuscript illuminations. Most English metalwork was melted down as a result of the break with Rome and the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 and the rise of Puritanism in the 1600s.

Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917...

c. 1125-50
Copper alloy, gilt
11.0 x 9.1cm
17.190.768
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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