Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Containers (hierarchy name)
5. containers (receptacles)
6. [containers by function or context]
7. ceremonial containers
8. liturgical containers
9. tabernacles (liturgical containers)

Anotations

Scope note:

Tabernacles in Christian churches having multiple compartments or niches, usually two or three, each of which can be revealed or brought forward using a rotating device. The compartments typically could hold a monstrance, a ciborium, and a crucifix; the niches could be highly decorated. Rotating tabernacles were considered mechanical marvels, and were relatively rare, most common in 18th-century northern European Roman Catholic churches.