Reliquary casket
Dateca. 1200 - 1225
Label TextRelics of Early Christian martyrs, the apostles, the Virgin Mary and even Christ himself, were venerated as sacred objects. This reliquary follows the traditional sarcophagus shape of funerary art, and is decorated with six standing saints on the front and one at each end.
Object number49.38
ProvenanceCollection de la Broise; collection Marquis de Biron, Paris; collection Ernst Rosenfeld, Paris; [Jacques Seligmann & Co., to 1937]; [Stora & Co., 12/29/1937 to 1/11/1949]; as purchase to Seattle
Exhibition HistoryTulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Art Center, "Medieval Art, 1965 (1965)
Ithaca, New York, Cornell University - Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, "A Medieval Treasury," (to Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York ), 1968 (1968)Published References"Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 115 (b&w)
Thiry, Bennett & Hamkhoefner, "Churches & Temples," 1953, p. 72C (202C & 203C)
Moseley, Johnson, Koenig, "Crafts Design," 1962, page 284
Philbrook Art Center, "Medieval Art," Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1965, cat. no. 107, illustrated
Robert G. Calkins, "A Medieval Treasury," Cornell University, 1968, cat. no. 34, page 5, pages 34-35Credit LineDonald E. Frederick Memorial Collection
Dimensions5 1/2 x 5 7/16 x 3 1/8 in. (14 x 13.8 x 8 cm)
MediumChamplevé enamel and gilding on copper over wood body
French, probably Limoges
mid-13th century
Object number: 52.103
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