This altar frontal is divided into two levels separated by arches enclosing the Adoration of the Magi, above, and the Presentation in the Temple, below. Both the structure and composition are unusual [+]
A vessel cut in a single piece with no mounts, with a high foot in the form of a truncated cone, a bulbous bowl, an everted neck and a cover with a basket-handle arch profile surmounted by an acorn. T [+]
This extremely interesting piece is one of the thirteen preserved cameos that originally came from at least two different vessels stolen in 1918 (I-1405 and I-1407). It shows a crowned and bearded fig [+]