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Prayer-book

Medium: Silver
Place Made: Venice, Italy
Dates: 1772
Dimensions: 6 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (17 x 12.1 cm)
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 49.228.4
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by S. Ralph Lazrus
Image: Overall, 49.228.4_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Prayer-book with repoussé silver cover. Cover and back repoussé with a central cartouche enclosing a crowned heart beneath a drapery-festooned canopy with baskets of blossoms. Below, two stylized motifs including birds and baskets of fruit or blossoms. Silver clasps. Holiday prayer-book for the entire year published in Venice, dated 1772. Condition: Good. One clasp is missing. Prayer-book binding broken.

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