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missal cover

human history
  • Description

    missal cover, Limoges champlevé enamel missal cover portraying crucifixion, with two other figures

  • Place
    Limoges/France
  • Accession Number
    1944.83
  • Other Id

    27363 (ethnology)

    M133 (miscellaneous)

    EO4012 (unknown ID type)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

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  • ethnology catlaogue card

Artefact

  • Credit Line
    purchased from Mrs Sophia Mayo, 1944, collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1944.83, 27363, M133, EO4012
  • Public Access Text

    Workshops in and around Limoges in France produced enamelled works from the 12th to 14th centuries. Champlevé is a process where enamels (resembling glass) are poured into grooves of metal then polished down to the same level of the surrounding metal.

    This missal cover, portraying a crowned Christ on the Cross with two attendant figures in the Byzantine style, would have been used to cover, decorate and protect a book containing prayers and rites of the church.

  • Primary Maker

     Limoges (Maker)

  • Place
    Limoges/France
  • Date
    13th Century
  • Technique

    champlevé

    enamelling

    coating (process)

  • Period

    Middle Ages/European and British/art and design period

  • Media

    enamel/coating (material)

    metal/inorganic material

  • Measurement Description
    length 325 x width 230 x depth 34 mm
    height 317.5 x width 222.3mm (on eth card)
  • Measurement Reading

    325mm

    230mm

    34mm

    317.5mm (on ethnology catalogue card)

    222.25mm (on ethnology catalogue card)

  • Classification

    Religious Objects

    Ceremonial Artifacts

    08 Communication Artifacts

  • Last Update
    02 Feb 2023
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