Civic oath crystal from the Lüneburg Council Silver, reliquary, Hans von Lafferde, 1443, Lüneburg. Silver, wrought, cast and gilded z. T.. Crystal, glass, enamel, 24.5 x 28.5 x 16 cm. Ident.Nr. 1874.371. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Photo:  Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. Photo:  Karen Bartsch

Architectural elements and figures cast. Roof, backgrounds of the characters and stones, bottom, sides and inner Inkarnat unvergoldet. Vestments z. T. hallmarked. Mark on the bottom. Figures, stones, etc., pushed through ambitious loops in the wedges, secured.Drafting comparatively coarse. - The two rivets at the corners indicate that the shrine originally possessed feet or a plinth. Three of the finials on the corners, a finger of the Judge, a part of the sword of Paul and attribute of a saint lost. Gilding z. T. abraded Email places missing. Chest-shaped, as a Gothic chapel decorated reliquary. Übereck asked, stepped and studded with pinnacles, battlements and finial buttresses that along the length of sides - originally! - Are inclined outwardly. High, desk-shaped, indented by Staff Fries and coved profile plinth. Shape of the stand plate according to the plan, meniscus deposed by groove.Eave longitudinally with leaf frieze. On the narrow sides as supported by columns ogee arches with crab and finial Recessed walls of the long sides, divided the right and left of a larger central panel by buttresses and pillars, bear the canopies in two fields, before statuettes on pedestals with rod pattern. In the middle of a long side of Christ the Judge in the mandorla, his stigmata indicative and behind the executioner's sword, the Nimbus with attached filigree. In semicircular fields, the four evangelists symbols on translucent blue enamel background. Laterally, kneeling on translucent green enamelled hills, Mary and John the Baptist, the outside two posaunenblasende angel. On the opposite side of the crucified Christ with Mary and John, who are on a low-mounted consoles. Laterally Peter and Paul, left outside the Evangelist Matthew, characterized by a sword in the back, and right outside a saint whose attribute is missing. In serving as a door niches on the short sides of the St. George with dragon and a female saint with palm fronds, well St. Ursula, patron saint of Lüneburg. On the roof curvature cylindrical reliquary of rock crystal, closed by two caps, which are decorated in accordance with the narrow sides of the box. On the gilded base with engraved leaf edge two tapes that are dark or translucent enamelled blue. On one (side of the world judge) in capital letters "ITE VENITE" on the other in lowercase "benedicti p (at) r (i) s mei" according to Matt. 25.41 and 25.34 (Go ye cursed / Come, ye blessed of my Father). Right and left kneeling guardian angel, on the wings of blue, translucent enamel with gold points (only z. T. received). At the base of different shapes and bright blue, yellow and red formerly backed glass stones in four- and six-sided versions.