id: 119461 accession number: 1940.347 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.347 updated: 2020-04-14 09:01:25.395000 Chasse, c. 1225-1250. 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1225-1250 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 copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 24.7 x 24.2 x 10.4 cm (9 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Durlacher Brothers, New York); Samuel Mather, Cleveland, Ohio. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: 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 --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 114 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n34 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.347/1940.347_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.347/1940.347_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.347/1940.347_full.tif