Monstrance (St. Margareta, Düsseldorf-Gerresheim)
The monstrance of St. Margareta Church in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim is a 72 cm high Rhenish tower monstrance and was created at the end of the 14th century. It is made of gold-plated silver. The center of the monstrance is formed by a central glass cylinder , flanked on the side by a double strut system . The buttress is decorated with various figures of saints. On the left there are the saints S. Hippolytus , S. Katharina and S. Agnes , on the right the saints S. Laurentius , S. Agnes and S. Sebastian . A dome-like canopy rests on the glass cylinder, adorned with two angel figures with passion instruments . A three-part essay crowns the ensemble and is even adorned in the lower floor with a figure of Mary and the figure of S. Hippolytus. The monstrance is crowned by a crucifix . Stylistically it is related to the Ratinger Monstrance , which is attributed to the same master Cois Eleia (?). Paul Clemen describes the work of art in Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt und der Kreis Düsseldorf .
“ Each leaf of the six-part foot is threefold and covered with tendrils, in that the ground is slightly gouged out and engraved, and each field is covered with three silver rosettes. The six-sided essay is open. The inscription: COIS ELEIA ME FECIT runs around the knob, which carries four pastes with stones. The middle glass cylinder rises on a base rising in the shape of a flat cone, which is decorated with tendrils and contains the silver heads of Weilbich crowned saints in four medallions. On the side of the glass cylinder a double strut system, adorned with the most delicate figures of saints, S. Hippolytus , S. Katharina and S. Agnes on the left, S. Laurentius , S. Agnes and S. Sebastian on the right . Under each of the inner figures the semi-figuration of a youth with a banner. On the dome canopy there are two angel figures with the passion instruments, on the three-part essay itself in the lower floor the Madonna and S. Hippolytus, the coronation of the whole is a crucifix. The monstrance is worked with wonderful delicacy and precision and is particularly close to the Ratinger monstrance made by the same master in the figurative representations, but then in the peculiar ornamentation of the foot. "