Reliquary Chasse with Scenes of the Martyrdom of Thomas Becket
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of J. Pierpont
Morgan, 1917
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Culture: English Date: ca. 1173–80 Material: Silver gilt, niello, glass Dimensions: 5.7 × 7 × 3.4 cm Inscribed: front: s(anctus) tomas occidit (St. Thomas dies); back: [...] t sanguis.e(st) s(ancti) tome ( ... is the blood of St. Thomas) Provenance: Albert Germeau, Limoges, France (by 1865); Louis Germeau (sold Paris, 1905, lot 931); J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York