Copper: engraved, stippled, and gilt; champlevé enamel: dark, medium, and light blue; green, yellow, red, and white; wood core with applied parchment, gesso; traces of red paint.
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/8 x 17 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (18.1 x 45.4 x 22.5 cm)
Rarely do such handsome enamel chests survive intact. Replete with charming images of animals and warriors, this example may have been used by either a worldly prince or a church official.
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Artist: Date: ca. 1180–90 Accession Number: 17.190.514 Date: ca. 1180–90Medium: Copper: engraved, chiseled, stippled, and gilt; champlevé enamel: dark, medium, and light blue; turquoise, dark and light green, yellow, red, and white; wood core, painted red on exteriorAccession: 17.190.514On view in:Gallery 304
Artist: Date: ca. 1215–35 Accession Number: 17.190.344 Date: ca. 1215–35Medium: Copper: formed, engraved, chiseled, scraped, stippled, and gilt; champlevé enamel: dark and medium blue, red, yellow, turquoise, medium green and white; blue-black glass inset eyes.Accession: 17.190.344On view in:Gallery 304
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