| The most distinctive part of the reliquary is its cupola, a small ogival crystal vault divided into six sections by ribs decorated with crockets. |
| This informal presentation enhanced the sense that one was being invited to uncover personal secrets, or to peer inside a reliquary. |
| One continued along a sequence of glass-fronted niches, like the compartments of a reliquary or the card-by-card disclosure of a Tarot hand. |
| In another essay, he described his experience at a Buddhist monastery that housed a reliquary said to contain a bone of the Buddha. |
| A traditional ex-voto figure would have shown the duke kneeling, his hands folded in prayer, without the reliquary or Saint George. |
| The harmonious, balanced contours of reliquary guardian figures convey a sense of tranquility highly valued in both art and life in Fang culture. |
