id: 128831 accession number: 1951.449 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.449 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:20.808000 Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket, 1220–25. Master G. Alpais (French), and Workshop. Copper: gilded and engraved; champlevé 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 title: Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1220–25 creation date earliest: 1220 creation date latest: 1225 current location: 106C Medieval Treasury creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Limousin, Limoges, Gothic period, 13th century technique: copper: gilded and engraved; champlevé enamel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Enamel find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Master G. Alpais (French) - artist * Workshop - artist --- measurements: Overall: 16.9 x 28.5 x 0.5 cm (6 5/8 x 11 1/4 x 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Images of the Saints opening date: 1965-03-05T05:00:00 Images of the Saints. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (organizer) (March 5-April 4, 1965). title: Treasures of Medieval France opening date: 1966-11-16T05:00:00 Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 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). title: Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe opening date: 2010-10-17T00:00:00 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'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"', 'opening_date': '2007-05-10T00:00:00'} * {'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.', 'opening_date': '2011-02-13T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Tolllin date: footnotes: citations: M. G. Chalandon, Lyons, France date: footnotes: citations: (Adolph Loewi (1888-1977), Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1951- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Gauthier, Marie-Madeleine, Geneviève François, Elisabeth Antoine, and Danielle Gaborit-Chopin. Émaux méridionaux: catalogue international de l'œuvre de Limoges. 1987. page number: 96-7, IE2 no. 7 url: Migeon, Gaston "La Collection de M.G. Chalandon" Les Arts (June 1905). page number: p.19, 28, no.3 url: Milliken, William M. “A Champlevé Enamel Plaque.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 1 (1952). page number: p. 7 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141757 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. 117 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n34 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 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 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 46 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n68 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 Notin, Véronique. Valérie et Thomas Becket: de l'influence des princes Plantagenêt dans l'œuvre de Limoges. Limoges: Musée municipal de l'Evêché/Musée de l'émail, 1999. page number: no. 1, p. 61 url: 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. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 158-159, no. 54 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: p. 164, repr. p. 165, no. 58 url: 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 url: Gaborit-Chopin, Danielle, Frédéric Tixier, Jean Marie Guillouët, and Dany Sandron. L'œuvre de Limoges et sa diffusion: trésors, objets, collections. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2011. page number: 96-7, IE2 no. 7 url: Munns, John. Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England: Theology, Imagery, Devotion. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 126-127, pl. 12 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.449/1951.449_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.449/1951.449_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.449/1951.449_full.tif