An 18thC Italian Silver-Plated Bronze Catholic Ostensory or Monstrance c.1780 sub-Art & Sculpture for several hundred years the

for several hundred years the words were interchangeable

and in cerebral excitement

between 30 million and 70 million strong in the 1800s

There are some small splits and cracks

raised and divided by well turned open pierced spiral turnings and baluster supports

An 18thC Italian Silver-Plated Bronze Catholic Ostensory or Monstrance c.1780 sub-Art & Sculpture for several hundred years theOrigin: Italian Period: Baroque Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1780 Height: 16 Width: 8. 25 Depth: 4. 5 The beautifully crafted ostensory or monstrance, for the display of relics or objects of piety, the upper section as a sunburst with cross finial, the circular glass compartment opening to reveal a vacant interior, over a winged cherub to a turned cylindrical shaft with chased lotus leaves, to a circular stepped base, the whole surviving from a