Index Classification: Material and Technique

Gilt Copper

Metalwork, Gilt Copper

Works of Art (29)

	*Armor (Gusoku)*, 16th and 18th centuries; Edo period, Japanese, Lacquered iron, mail, silk, copper-gilt (14.100.172)
	*Armor (yoroi)*, Late Kamakura period, early 14th century, Japanese, Lacquered iron and leather, silk, stenciled leather, copper-gilt (14.100.121)
	Bursa Reliquary, early 900s, North Italian, Bone, copper-gilt, wood (53.19.2)
	Casket with Warriors and Dancers, carved 11th century, Byzantine; Probably made in Constantinople, Bone, copper gilt (17.190.239)
	Chrismatory, ca. 1200–1220, Limoges, Copper: engraved, chased, and gilt; champlevé enamel: lapis and lavender blue, turquoise, light and dark green, red, and white (17.190.853)
	Crib of the Infant Jesus, 15th century, South Netherlandish; Made in Brabant, Carved and polychromed oak, copper gilt, silver gilt, painted parchment, and silk embroidered with seed pearls, gold thread, tinsel, and translucent enamels (1974.121)
	Dancing four-armed Ganesha, 16th–17th century Nepal Gilt copper alloy (1992.384)
	Fierce Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom, 10th century, Nepal, Gilt copper alloy with color and gold paint (1982.220.13)
	Goddess Durga as Slayer of the Buffalo-Demon Mahisha (Mahishasuramardini), 14th–15th century, Nepal, Gilt copper alloy, inlaid with semiprecious stones (1986.498)
	*Helmet (Suji Kabuto)*, Muromachi period, 15th century, Japan, Lacquered iron, silk, stenciled leather, gilt copper (13.112.10)
	Helmet, 5th century; Kofun period, Japanese, Iron, covered with copper-gilt (28.60.2)
	Horse Bridle or Belt Ornaments, Gilt copper or copper alloy and cloisonné enamel (17.190.962a-j)
	Hunting sword, ca. 1851, French (Paris), Silver, cast, chased, partly gilt; gilt copper; steel (1987.161)
	Jewel cabinet incorporating a watch, possibly before 1766, Signed by James Cox (English), Agate, mounted in gilded copper and gilded brass and set with painted enamel plaques, and fruitwood (64.101.829)
	The Man of Sorrows, mid-14th century, Central Italy, Gilt copper, champlevé enamel (1982.480)
	Medallion with the Crucifixion, ca. 1100, France (Conques), Gilt copper, cloisonné and champlevé (2007.189)
	Morse, with Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, 1300–1325, Italian; Made in Tuscany, Copper gilt, with champlevé enamel (1979.498.2)
	Pair of earflares with condors, 2nd–3rd century, Peru; Moche, Gold, silver, gilt copper, shell (1979.206.1245,.1246)
	Parade helmet, possibly early 17th century, Turkish, Gilt copper (1995.68)
	Pectoral Cross, 1000–1050, Probably from the Abbey of Saint-Bertin at Saint-Omer, northwestern France, Walrus ivory with copper alloy gilt inlays (17.190.217)
	Plaque Showing the Pentecost, ca. 1150–1175, South Netherlandish, Champlevé enamel on copper gilt (65.105)
	Reliquary of Mary Magdalene, 14th and 15th century, Made in Tuscany, Italy, Gilded copper, gilded silver, rock crystal, verre églomisé (17.190.504)
	Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head, 1470–80, Italian, Steel, copper-gilt, glass, polychromy (23.141)
	Seated Buddha Akshobhya (?), the Imperturbable Buddha of the East, 9th–10th century, Tibet, Gilt copper (1995.106)
	Situla (Bucket for Holy Water), ca. 860–880, Carolingian; From the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Crannenburg, Germany, possibly made in Reims, northern France, Ivory with copper alloy gilt mounts and inlays (17.190.45)
	Standing bodhisattva, 8th–9th century, Nepal, Gilt copper alloy (1981.59)
	Standing Shiva(?), Angkor period, 11th century, Cambodia (Angkor, Siem Reap Province), Gilt-copper alloy, silver inlay (1988.355)
	Standing Tara, 14th century, Nepal, Gilt copper alloy with color, inlaid with semiprecious stones (66.179)
	Standing Vishnu, 10th century Nepal Gilt copper alloy (1986.501.8)