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Saint James the Great
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Saint James the Great

Date: ca. 1231
Geography: Made in Limoges, France
Culture: French
Medium: Copper-gilt, champlevé enamel, turquoise, cabochons
Dimensions: Overall: 11 5/8 x 5 11/16 x 2 3/16 in. (29.6 x 14.5 x 5.5 cm)
Classification: Enamels-Champlevé
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number: 17.190.123
On view in Gallery 304
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This gilded relief sculpture of Saint James the Great decorated the high altar of the abbey church at Grandmont until the French Revolution.
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Inscription: (in second horizontal band)S: IACOB.

  • Provenance

    Probably from the frontal of the high altar, destroyed in 1790, of the abbey church at Grandmont, near Limoges.; Monsieur Astaix, Limoges (by 1883); Adolf Hommel, Zurich (until 1909); his sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne (August 10-18, 1909, no. 996); [ Hamburger Frères, Paris (1909)]; J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (in 1909)

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