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"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\u2019s design and imagery follow a common formula with Christ\u2019s 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\u2019s 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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"citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cObjects from the Samuel Mather Collection.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 3 (1941).",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 114",
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"citation": "Winter, Edward. Enamel Art on Metals. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1958.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
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