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1931

  • We acquired this object.

2025

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Tabernacle (Spain), 1550–80

This is a tabernacle. It is dated 1550–80 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is wood, gesso, paint, gilding, metal. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

This object was donated by Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor Garnier Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

It is inscribed

Inscriptions are painted in the frieze. Above St. Peter: . . . OMNIS + SPVS + LAVET; at the front: DNM + TVAVTE + D-AE; above St. Paul: MISERERE NRI

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Tabernacle (Spain), 1550–80; wood, gesso, paint, gilding, metal; Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-73-250

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