Gold reliquary Philippine

ery rare Spanish colonial reliquary, Philippines ca 1700. Although a Spanish colony the design is very much a local form. 

Measurements : 45 nx 35 mm

Weight :  16.2 gram

Colonization by the Crown of Castile began when Spanish explorer Miguel López de Legazpi arrived from New Spain (Spanish: Nueva España) in 1565. Many Filipinos were brought to New Spain as slaves and forced crew. Whereas many Latin Americans were brought to the Philippines as sodliers and colonists. Spanish Manila became the capital of the Captaincy General of the Philippines and the Spanish East Indies in 1571,[65][66]Spanish territories in Asia and the Pacific.[67] The Spanish invaded local states using the principle of divide and conquer, bringing most of what is the present-day Philippines under one unified administration.Disparate barangays were deliberately consolidated into towns, where Catholic missionaries could more easily convert their inhabitants to Christianity, which was initially Syncretist. Christianization by the Spanish friars occurred mostly across the settled lowlands over the course of time. From 1565 to 1821, the Philippines was governed as a territory of the Mexico City-based Viceroyalty of New Spain; it was then administered from Madrid after the Mexican War of Independence.  Manila became the western hub of trans-Pacific trade by Manila galleons built in Bicol and Cavite.