Monstrance

Made by John Hardman & Co.Designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

1851–1852

Medium: Silver, gilt, glass, and semi-precious stones
Dimensions: 43.8 × 22.9 × 18.1 cm (17 1/4 × 9 × 7 1/8 in.) 989 g
Genre: Vessel
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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About

A silver-gilt monstrance, set with semi-precious stones and cut brilliants (three missing from the cruciform finial), with original glass, marked with the mark of the Birmingham Assay Office, the date-letter of 1852-53, and Hardman & Co. The crescent host holder is missing.