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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.
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Title: Head of Christ
Date: model late 15th century (cast 18th or 19th century)
Culture: Italian, Rome (?)
Medium: Copper alloy with a silvered surface; pierced at the top; lead-plugged hole under the INRI-tablet.
Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.8 cm, wt. 179.49 g.
Classification: Plaquettes
Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Object Number: 1975.1.1336
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