Enamel Boxes, Coffers, and Caskets

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These enamel boxes include enamelled reliquaries, including the gable-shaped châsse form.

  • British Museum 1978,0502.6, champlevé enamel casket with plaues pinned to the box with Christ in Majesty, the Apostles, the Nativity, and the Crucifixion, northern Germany, early 12th century
  • Met 17.190.685-87, .695, .710-.711, the chasse of Champagnat, Limoges, c. 1150
  • British Museum 1859,0110.1, a copper-gilt casket with enamelled figures including two scenes of lovers, a musician with a dancer, and a lover kneeling to his lady, Limoges, c. 1180
  • British Museum WB.19, a reliquary in champlevé enamel on copper with gable top, with scenes from the martyrdom of St. Valérie, Limoges, c. 1170
  • Met 17.190.514, chasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty, Limoges, c. 1180-1190
  • Louvre OA 5892, a reliquary with Christ in Majesty and saints, Limoges, late 12th century
  • Cl. 23296, reliquary of St. Thomas Becket, champlevé enamel, Limoges, c. 1190-1200
  • Cl. 23822, a reliquary with the journey of the Three Wise Men and the Adoration of Christ, Limoges, c. 1200
  • Art Institute of Chicago 1943.72, a reliquary casket with saints, Limoges, c. 1200
  • Kimbell Art Museum AP 1979.26, a reliquary casket in champlevé enamel on copper with a wood core, Limoges, c. 1200-1220
  • Met 17.190.853, a chrismatory with busts of angels, Limoges, c. 1200-1220
  • Louvre OA 6935, a chrismatory, Limoges, c. 1200-1230
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art 1950-31-1, a reliquary (chasse) with the Journey of the Magi, the Adoration of the Magi, and saints, Limoges, c. 1220-1230
  • Châsse de Saint Exupère, 13th century
  • Lempertz Auction 1075, Lot 901, a Limoges enamel chasse form reliquary casket with angels, champlevé enamel, Limoges, mid-13th century
  • Walters 44.102, a chrismatory with engraved busts of angels, champlevé enamel on copper with gilding, Limoges, mid-13th century
  • Kimbell Art Museum AP 1979.27, miniature casket in champlevé enamel on copper with scrolling vines and fleurons, Limoges, c. 1250-1300
  • V&A 4-1865, the Valence casket, decorated with a repeated pattern in enamel of six different shields (the royal arms of England and those of Valence, Brittany, Angouleme, Brabant, and Lacy), possibly made in Limoges or England, c. 1305-1312
  • British Museum 1977,0718.2, a box and lid with a lotus scroll and landscape in enamel cloissone on copper, China, c. 1401-1450
  • British Museum 1940,1214.314, a circular lidded box decorated with two parrots in a fruit tree, made of bronze with cloissone, China, c. 1451-1500
  • Caskets with putti and mottoes of courtly love (Frick 1916.4.14) and heads of Caesars within wreaths (Frick 1916.4.15) by Colin Nouailher, 16th century; a coffret with profane moralistic scenes by Colin Nouailher from the second half of the 16th century (Louvre OA 10561)
  • Walters 44.356, a casket with scenes from Genesis and the Life of Christ, Jean Pénicaud II, c. 1535
  • Walters 44.65, a casket with the Labors of Hercules, Pierre Reymond, Limoges, c. 1540
  • V&A C.49-1982, casket in gilt metal with enamelled copper plaques depicting battle scenes, Limoges, c. 1540-1545
  • Walters 44.135, a casket with scenes of ancient lion hunts, Pierre Remond, c. 1547
  • Walters 44.38, a casket with scenes from the story of Joseph, Jean de Court, c. 1555
  • Walters 44.64, casket with Dido and Aeneas, Jean Pénicaud III, c. 1560-1565
  • Walters 44.282, a casket with scenes from Creation, late 16th century