PROCESSION CROSS Gothic, probably Burgundy, 1st half of the 15th century. Wooden core, applied with chased silver plates, and decorated with pine cones and rosettes. Traces of a former gilding On the front: enameled God the Father in a Gothic niche with a canopy, on the back: an empty rectangular chamber, originally for holding a relic (door missing). Mounted on a later conical shaft with a flat nodus in gilt copper. Punch mark "PVE" below a crown, and date or place stamp B. 22 × 2 × 44 cm. Dents and losses. Door and insert of the reliquary container, missing or incomplete. Associated. Provenance: - Formerly in the Collection Leopold Kolisch, Amsterdam. Auction Sotheby's Amsterdam, 20 December 2001. Lot No. 156. - Private property, Austria. * The full tax is charged on this item marked * in the auction catalogue, i.e. VAT is charged on the sum of the bid price plus the surcharge for those items. The VAT will be refunded to Purchasers providing a validly stamped export declaration.