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| Keywords: German - Appliqué with Saint George Slaying the Dragon - Walters 7221.jpg The luminescence of mother-of-pearl comes out in this delicate appliqué carving of Saint George triumphing over a lizard-like dragon This fragment is all that remains of a circular relief that was attached to a reliquary probably destroyed in a famous collection of liturgical vessels established by Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg 1490-1545 in Halle Germany The reliquary with the relief was documented in a drawing made about 1520 for a catalogue of the collection ca 1500 mother-of-pearl cm 4 45 5 24 0 79 accession number 72 21 30922 Miss Dorothy Miner date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Miss Dorothy Miner 1942 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 Treasures of Heaven The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; The British Museum London 2010-2011 place of origin Germany Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum Reliefs of Saint George and the Dragon Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
