Featherstone Vaults

Collection

Sacred & Religious

Ecclesiastical and devotional objects in bronze, silver, stone and wood.

Historic gilded-silver processional cross from a medieval art museum collection.
Representative collection image · Wuselig / Wikimedia Commons · Public Domain

How we catalogue it

Age and surface are valued above brightness. Patina is left undisturbed and later alterations are recorded rather than removed. Material is handled with attention to its religious significance and to the communities it came from.

Ecclesiastical · Devotional · Reliquary

Currently catalogued01

Catalogue plates are shown blank. Featherstone Vaults photography is in production and will replace them entry by entry; no stand-in imagery is used.