id:			119461
accession number:	1940.347
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.347
updated:		2022-11-29 10:00:18.303000

Chasse, c. 1225–50. France, Limousin, Limoges, Gothic period, 13th century. Copper: repoussé, engraved, stippled, and gilded; champlevé enamel; oak core; overall: 24.7 x 24.2 x 10.4 cm (9 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of S. Livingstone Mather, Constance Mather Bishop, Philip R. Mather, Katherine Hoyt Cross, and Katherine Mather McLean in accordance with the wishes of Samuel Mather 1940.347

title:				Chasse
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creation date:			c. 1225–50
creation date earliest:		1225
creation date latest:		1250
current location:		106C Medieval Treasury
creditline:			Gift of S. Livingstone Mather, Constance Mather Bishop, Philip R. Mather, Katherine Hoyt Cross, and Katherine Mather McLean in accordance with the wishes of Samuel Mather
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culture:	France, Limousin, Limoges, Gothic period, 13th century
technique:	copper: repoussé, engraved, stippled, and gilded; champlevé enamel; oak core
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Gothic
type:		Enamel
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measurements: Overall: 24.7 x 24.2 x 10.4 cm (9 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Durlacher Brothers, New York, NY)
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	Samuel Mather (1851-1931), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1940-
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wall description: 
A chasse is a container with a pyramid-shaped roof that once served as a shrine for sacred relics. During the medieval period, chasses like this one were placed on church altars during high feast days to allow the faithful to venerate their sacred contents. The chasse’s design and imagery follow a common formula with Christ’s Crucifixion and Majesty decorating the central fields of its principal face. The back consists of two panels with identical decoration. Each features three busts of angels inscribed in medallions. Of the chasse’s lateral sides, only one is preserved in its original state, decorated with the figure of an imposing angel emerging from a bank of clouds. Here, the dark blue enamel background shows an even greater variety of rosettes and other decorative motifs, all engraved, stippled, and gilded like the ones on the other sides
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Milliken, William M. “Objects from the Samuel Mather Collection.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 28, no. 3 (1941).
	page number: 	34, 36
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140911

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 114
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n34

	Winter, Edward. <em>Enamel Art on Metals. </em>New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1958.
	page number: 	p. 194
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	Ball, Victoria Kloss. <em>Architecture and Interior Design.</em> New York: Wiley, 1980.
	page number: 	p. 214, fig. 5.69.
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein<em>. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 160-161, no. 55
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	Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550.</em> München: Hirmer, 2007.
	page number: 	p. 156-157, no. 59
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	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages.</em> Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009.
	page number: 	p. 21, fig. 15
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IMAGES

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