Sheets of gilded metal (copper or bronze), silver and silver sheets (crucifix), on a wooden base, with the surface inlaid with coral and enamel decorations.Late 16th – First half 17th CenturyFrom the Basilica of the Holy House. Hall of the TreasuryThis altar set is recorded in the Register of Gifts of the Historical Archive of the Holy House, on January 5, 1772, as a gift from Prince Caracciolo d’Avellino to the Sanctuary of the Holy House.It was kept in the Sala del Tesoro or Sala Pomarancio of the Lauretana Basilica, erected in the year 1600 at the behest of the cardinal protector Antonio Maria Gallo, in order to keep the ex-votos brought or sent to the church of Santa Maria di Loreto by the faithful.The entire kit is carefully made. The technique is the classic one, of the coral with a joint back which foresees sheets of perforated gilded metal, with coral elements inserted from the back, fixed with a waxy mixture and reinforcing cloth, placed on wooden supports gilded with leaf and, as regards the candlesticks and the Crucifix, decorated in tempera with fake corals. Each element differs in shape and structural needs.The crucified Christ is in finely chiselled silver. The cross has a large base in gilded and perforated bronze, with scroll decoration. The whole surface is decorated with corals of different shapes.Between 2010 and 2011 the furniture was subjected to a restoration intervention by the Metals and Terracottas Laboratory of the Vatican Museums which highlighted how the works were subjected to tampering and interventions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.”