Head of Christ

Italian, Rome (?)

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This plaquette portrays the bust of Christ with a cruciform halo. This late and crude cast is from the eighteenth or nineteenth century. It is a variation of another plaquette in the Lehman Collection: 1975.1.1335.

Head of Christ, Copper alloy with a silvered surface; pierced at the top; lead-plugged hole under the INRI-tablet., Italian, Rome (?)

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