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"tombstone": "Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket, 1220\u201325. Master G. Alpais (French), and Workshop. Copper: gilded and engraved; champlev\u00e9 enamel; overall: 16.9 x 28.5 x 0.5 cm (6 5/8 x 11 1/4 x 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1951.449",
"current_location": "106C Medieval Treasury",
"title": "Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket",
"creation_date": "1220\u201325",
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"department": "Medieval Art",
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"type": "Enamel",
"measurements": "Overall: 16.9 x 28.5 x 0.5 cm (6 5/8 x 11 1/4 x 3/16 in.)",
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"title": "Images of the Saints",
"description": "Images of the Saints. Montr\u00e9al Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (organizer) (March 5-April 4, 1965).",
"opening_date": "1965-03-05T05:00:00"
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"title": "Treasures of Medieval France",
"description": "Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967).",
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"title": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).",
"opening_date": "2007-05-10T00:00:00"
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"id": 196195,
"title": "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe",
"description": "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 17, 2010-January 17, 2011); The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (February 13-May 15, 2011).",
"opening_date": "2010-10-17T00:00:00"
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"description": "Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): \"Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art\"",
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"description": "CMA, October 17, 2010 - January 17, 2011, Walters Art Museum February 13 - May 15, 2011: \"Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe,\" cat. no. 101.",
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"description": "M. G. Chalandon, Lyons, France",
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"description": "(Adolph Loewi (1888-1977), Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"description": "On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket was brutally murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. The immediate popularity of Becket\u2019s cult is reflected in the large number of enamel reliquaries produced in late 12th- and early 13th-century Limoges workshops to house relics associated with the archbishop, who was canonized only three years after his death. This plaque, which pairs a scene depicting the Martyrdom of Thomas Becket with one of Christ\u2019s Crucifixion, once formed the principal face of such a reliquary.",
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"citation": "Gauthier, Marie-Madeleine, Genevie\u0300ve Franc\u0327ois, Elisabeth Antoine, and Danielle Gaborit-Chopin. E\u0301maux me\u0301ridionaux: catalogue international de l'\u0153uvre de Limoges. 1987.",
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"citation": "Migeon, Gaston \"La Collection de M.G. Chalandon\" Les Arts (June 1905).",
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"citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cA Champlev\u00e9 Enamel Plaque.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 1 (1952).",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141757"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n34"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 46",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n70"
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"citation": "Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 116-117",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n143"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n68"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 51",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n71"
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"citation": "Notin, Ve\u0301ronique. Vale\u0301rie et Thomas Becket: de l'influence des princes Plantagene\u0302t dans l'\u0153uvre de Limoges. Limoges: Muse\u0301e municipal de l'Eve\u0302che\u0301/Muse\u0301e de l'e\u0301mail, 1999.",
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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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"citation": "Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. Mu\u0308nchen: Hirmer, 2007.",
"page_number": "p. 164, repr. p. 165, no. 58",
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"citation": "Bagnoli, Martina. Treasures of heaven: saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 101, p. 188",
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"citation": "Gaborit-Chopin, Danielle, Fre\u0301de\u0301ric Tixier, Jean Marie Guilloue\u0308t, and Dany Sandron. L'\u0153uvre de Limoges et sa diffusion: tre\u0301sors, objets, collections. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2011.",
"page_number": "96-7, IE2 no. 7",
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"citation": "Munns, John. Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England: Theology, Imagery, Devotion. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2016.",
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