About This Artwork

France, Limoges

Reliquary Casket, c. 1200

Gilt copper, champlevé enamel, and wood core
15.6 x 13.3 x 6.8 cm (6 1/8 x 5 1/4 x 2 11/16 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1943.72

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, The Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, Enamel: An Historic Survey to the Present Day, March 16, 1954 - June 21, 1954.

Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, October 2, 1985-January 5, 1986.

Publication History

Art Instiute of Chicago, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1943), pp. 17 and 148 (ill.).

Meyric. R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection, (Chicago, 1945), p. 67, no. 35.

Spencer Moseley, Pauline Johnson, and Hazel Koenig, Crafts Design (Belmont, CA, 1964), p. 391.

Christina Nielsen, ed. Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30,2 (2004), pp. 15 and 40, no. 20.

Emaux Meridionaux, catalogue internationale de l'Oeuvre de Limoges, vol. 2 (Paris, forthcoming).

Ownership History

Harry Fuld (d. 1932), Frankfurt, before 1932 [see Bloch 1992]; by descent to his widow, Lucie Mayer-Fuld (née Cajzago), Berlin and later New York, 1932-1942 [according to incoming shipping receipt in curatorial file]; sold through Raphael Stora, New York, to the Art Institute for $4,000, 1942 [according to incoming shipping receipt, mentioned above] .