Polychrome and Gilt Wood Carved Eucharistic Casket
A container for relics (reliquary) or to have served as a tabernacle
Dimensions:
W-26 D-20 H-25 (cm)
Item reference:
120165-1829-4
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Item Ref Code:
120165-1829-4
Item No.
120165
- Dealer No.
1829
- Building No.
4
This item is located in
The Guardroom
Description
For the body of Christ? The function of this casket is not entirely clear. It seems likely that it was used as a container for relics (reliquary) or to have served as a tabernacle. Tabernacles held hosts that were consecrated during the eucharistic liturgy but were not administered to the congregation.
Today it is thought that the hosts were stored inside.According to the Catholic belief, during the Eucharist the bread and wine truly transformed into Christ’s body and blood, an event known as transubstantaition. The nature of this transformation was a subject of fierce theological dispute during the Middle Ages and into the Reformation. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries,as a means of underscoring the host’s literal and material transformation, it was venerated increasingly outside of the Eucharist ceremony. Special wafers were baked and consecrated, and then presented to believers in splendours containers (often called a monstrance, or custodian). This carved casket is likely to have been such an object.
Specifications
- Item reference : 120165-1829-4
- Dimensions : W-26 D-20 H-25 (cm)
- Colour: Multi
- Country of Origin: Spain
- Material: Wood
- Period: 18th Century & Earlier
- Condition: Good Condition, Minor Age Wear.
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