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Decorative altar structure
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retable
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A retable is a structure or element behind and above the altar or communion table of a church. At the minimum it may be a simple shelf for candles behind an altar, but it can be a large structure rising high above. According to the Getty Art & Architecture ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Retable \Re*ta"ble\ (r[-e]*t[=a]"b'l), n. (Eccl.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of flowers, etc.
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n. A table or shelf behind an altar, on which are placed images or holy objects
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It embraced a black-figured amphora by Amasis, a proto-Corinthian vase in the Aegean style, Koubatcha and Rhodian plates, Athenian pottery, a sixteenth-century Italian holywater stoup of rock crystal, pewter of the Tudor period (several pieces bearing the double-rose hallmark), a bronze plaque by Cellini, a triptych of Limoges enamel, a Spanish retable of an altarpiece by Vallfogona, several Etruscan bronzes, an Indian Greco Buddhist, a statuette of the Goddess Kuan Yin from the Ming Dynasty, a number of very fine Renaissance woodcuts, and several specimens of Byzantine, Carolingian, and early French ivory carvings.