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Reliquary Bust of St. Balbina

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, bequest of Susan Vanderpoel Clark, 1967

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Culture: South Netherlandish (Brussels?)
Date: ca. 1520–30
Material: Painted and gilded oak
Dimensions: height 44.5 cm
Provenance: Louis Mohl, Paris, sold 1912; Susan Vanderpoel Clark, New York

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