Reliquary Chest

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Title Reliquary Chest

Date 13th century

Medium Enamel and gilt copper on wood

Dimensions Overall: 8 x 7 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. (20.3 x 19.1 x 9.2 cm)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 77.48

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Richly colored enamel adorns this reliquary chest, which preserved the bone fragments or remains of a saint. The French city of Limoges was renowned as a center of enamelwork production between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. Using a technique known as champlevé, Limoges artisans placed powdered colored glass into grooves carved into the metal surface of anobject, and then fired it to fuse the glass and metal.

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"Reliquary Chest | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=77.48