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Six Enamel Plaques
Not on view
These plaques depict episodes of the Life of Christ: One focuses on the Nativity, and the other five on his Passion and life post- Resurrection. The plaques decorated at least two liturgical objects since their creation, including, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, the base of an altarpiece in Hildesheim Cathedral. A wooden board discovered in the cathedral’s crypt in 1989 suggests they were originally arranged on an altar frontal (see illustration, which shows that some of the scenes are missing).
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