Pomander with depictions of saints from the treasury of the St. Dionysius to Enger-Herford, Olfactory ball, End of 15th century. Silver, embossed and engraved. Diameter: 6.8 cm - Height: 9.6 cm (with eyelet). Ident.Nr. 1888.641. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Photo: Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. Photo: Saturia Linke

The ball is driven into two parts of something greater silver sheet and can be opened in the middle, where a corresponding closure, the obscured an encircling, narrow bead-shaped bar, the upper and lower halves together. Above the silver bullet has a small, surrounded by plastic foliage eyelet with a big ring on which the capsule was suspended; below her is placed a larger rosette-shaped blossom. Each of the two halves is provided with engraved figurative representations in three circular areas, one of which follow some time widespread graphical templates: above the hl. Veronika selbdritt with the sudarium, a group of Anna and St. Christopher, down Christ as Man of Sorrows with the Passion, Virgin and Child in glory beams and a Lament of Mary. The engraved tracery that fills the interstices between them is partly open, in the upper part of the respective half. DK