The original provenance of Cebej’s bandero is unknown. Usually hung upon a pole, a bandero is a banner comprised of a double-sided, canvas painted with sacral imagery – images of saints and Eucharistic motifs – and sewn into the brocade’s fabric. They were carried in processions marking a range of church holidays. Cebej’s bandero, too, was likely sewn into a larger piece of fabric in the past, and its motif suggests it was used for Fat Thursday and the Feast of Corpus Christi.

Eucharistic motifs are depicted on both sides – on one Corpus Christi, represented by an artfully constructed monstrance with two adoring angels in adoration of the Eucharist. The monstrance is held by two angels clasping it through a white mantle, whose bottom end drapes playfully over two putti. On the other side of the canvas, the Blood of Christ motif shows blood pouring from Jesus’s spear wound into a chalice held by an angel. The painter used the exact same compositional design in his Baptism in the Jordan.

Due to wear and tear, as well as climatic conditions, here and there even due to neglect and improper storage, these banderos are rare today and, when still existing, are often in rather poor shape. Cebej’s bandero is one of the best-preserved examples in large format.