Medieval casket with champlevé enamel and silver plaques

An image of Casket. Unknown maker, England. Unknown maker, Meuse, Mosan. Rectangular with a lid of truncated pyramidal form. The sides are overlaid with thin D-shaped plates of silver embossed with figures of angels; the spandrels have embossed vine scrolls in gold. Along the top of the lid there is a strip of silver embossed with palmettes, the rest is covered with champlevé enamel. Copper, engraved, champlevé, enamelled, and gilded, with applied repoussé silver plaques, the box interior of wood, height, whole, 5.7 cm, width, whole, 11 cm, depth, whole, 5.8 cm, circa 1170-1200. Enamels late 12th century; plaques c. 1170; wooden interior modern (date uncertain). Romanesque.

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Casket. Unknown maker, England. Unknown maker, Meuse, Mosan. Rectangular with a lid of truncated pyramidal form. The sides are overlaid with thin D-shaped plates of silver embossed with figures of angels; the spandrels have embossed vine scrolls in gold. Along the top of the lid there is a strip of silver embossed with palmettes, the rest is covered with champlevé enamel. Copper, engraved, champlevé, enamelled, and gilded, with applied repoussé silver plaques, the box interior of wood, height, whole, 5.7 cm, width, whole, 11 cm, depth, whole, 5.8 cm, circa 1170-1200. Enamels late 12th century; plaques c. 1170; wooden interior modern (date uncertain). Romanesque.

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Accession Number: M.27-1904
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 695 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 138.41kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2007:10:10 16:12:57

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12th Century angels box boxes casket champleve champleve enamel copper embossed enamel enamelled English European Fitz_AA gilded gilding gilt gold lidded Medieval metalwork palmettes plaque plaques pyramid pyramidal religion religious repousse Romanesque Silver silverware

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