On the exhibition, connected to the stems by means of a bayonet attachment, is applied a naturalistic garland with rosettes woven into pairs of cherub heads with reliefs, the ray alternates irregular golden darts, The chromatic contrasts are repeated on other ornamental elements and in the figurative parts, the case is adorned with baccellature and, inside, with red colored stones. The work proposes an updated version of the repertoires of the late Baroque and the Barocchetto, and also includes styles of the new nineteenth-century taste that can be seen in the rigid structure assumed by the structural scheme. The typology of the furniture is still linked to the canonical structures of the eighteenth century, but the formal setting now betrays the moment of passage between the two centuries and appears perfectly consistent with the dating of the artifact (1795). The monstrance bears on its base and radium the mark of the mint of Messina, and the consular threshold “F.S”, initials also present in an monstrance relevant to the mother church of Rometta. The piece for technical and typological aspects appears stylistically very similar to the model of Milazzo, in this furniture however the endorsement “F.S” is next to the date 90 (1790) and combined with the acronym of the silver maker “D.S”, initials attributable to the master Domenico La Spina, active from the end of the seventeenth century to at least the first thirty years of the following century.

Musolino G., Lanuzza S. (a cura di), Tesori di Milazzo. Arte sacra tra Seicento e Settecento., Milazzo 2015