The twelve surviving plaques in this series are divided among London, Paris, and New York. The group may have originally decorated a large cross base or a pulpit.
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Title:Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre
Date:ca. 1150–75
Geography:Made in Meuse valley, Netherlands
Culture:South Netherlandish
Medium:Champlevé enamel, copper alloy, gilt
Dimensions:Overall: 4 x 4 x 1/8 in. (10.1 x 10.1 x 0.3 cm)
Classification:Enamels-Champlevé
Credit Line:Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number:17.190.419
Inscription: (above open crypt): SVRREXSIT [should be SURREXIT] NV [should be NON] / EST HIC . (may he have risen, he is not here [1 Mark 16:6])
(along base of plaque): SEPV[L]CR / VM D[OMI]NI (tomb of the Lord)
Georges Hoentschel (French); J. Pierpont Morgan (American), London and New York (until 1917)
Pératé, André. Collections Georges Hoentschel: Émaux du XIIe au XVe siècle. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1911. fig. VI.
Grinnell, Robert. "Iconography and Philosophy in the Crucifixion Window at Poitiers." The Art Bulletin 28, no. 3 (September 1946). p. 180 n. 38.
Forsyth, William Holmes. "Around Godefroid de Claire." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 24, no. 10 (June 1966). pp. 305, 313, fig. 3, 22.
Lasko, Peter. "The Pentecost Panel and Godefroid de Claire." The Connoisseur Year Book, 1966 (1966). pp. 47–48, fig. 6.
Hoving, Thomas. "Director's Choice." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 28, no. 5 (January 1970). pp. 26–27.
Verdier, Philippe. "What Do We Know of the Great Cross of Suger in Saint-Denis." Gesta 9, no. 2 (1970). p. 14.
Kötzsche, Dietrich. "Zum Stand der Forschung der Goldschmiedekunst des 12. Jahrhunderts im Rhein-Maas-Gebiet." In Rhein und Maas: Kunst und Kultur 800–1400. Volume 2, Berichte, Beiträge und Forschungen zum Themenkreis der Ausstellung und des Katalogs, edited by Anton Legner. Cologne: Museum Schnütgen, 1973. p. 207.
Morgan, Nigel. "The Iconography of Twelth Century Mosan Enamels." In Rhein und Maas: Kunst und Kultur 800–1400. Volume 2, Berichte, Beiträge und Forschungen zum Themenkreis der Ausstellung und des Katalogs, edited by Anton Legner. Cologne: Museum Schnütgen, 1973. p. 275 n. 161.
Verdier, Philippe. "Emaux mosans et rheno-mosans dans les collections des États-Unis." Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art 44 (1975). pp. 55–60, ill. p. 54.
Brodsky, Joyce E. "Le groupe du triptyque de Stavelot: Notes sur un atelier mosan et sur les rapports avec Saint-Denis." Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 21 (April–June 1978). pp. 105–7.
Stratford, Neil. Catalogue of Medieval Enamels in the British Museum: Volume 2, Northern Romanesque Enamel. London: British Museum Press, 1993. pp. 27, 30, 57, 59–67, pl. 15, 21 (as no. 3f).
Lasko, Peter. Ars Sacra, 800-1200. 2nd ed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994. pp. 195–7.
Lasko, Peter. Studies on Metalwork, Ivories and Stone. London: Pindar Press, 1994. p. 94, fig. 6, [reprint of Lasko 1966].
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