Book Cover Plaque with Christ in Majesty, ca. 1185–1210, Made in Limoges, France, French, Copper (plaque): engraved, scraped, stippled, and gilt; (appliqués): repoussé, engraved, chased, and gilt; champlevé enamel: blue-black, dark, medium, and light blue; green, yellow, red, brownish red, and white, blue-black glass inset eyes., Overall: 10 3/4 x 5 9/16 x 11/16 in. (27.3 x 14.2 x 1.7 cm), Enamels-Champlevé, The earliest known textual reference to the famous enamels produced in the city of Limoges during the twelfth through the fourteenth century concerns a book cover seen in the Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris in the 1160s and intended for an English abbot
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Book Cover Plaque, Christ, Majesty, ca, 1185–1210, Limoges, France, French, Copper, plaque, engraved, scraped, stippled, gilt, appliqué, repoussé, chased, champlevé enamel, blue-black, dark, medium, light blue, green, yellow, red, brownish red, white, blue-black glass inset eyes, Overall, 10 3/4 x 5 9/16 11/16, 27.3 14.2 1.7 cm, Enamels-Champlevé, earliest, textual reference, famous enamels, produced, city, twelfth, fourteenth century, concerns, book cover, Abbey, Saint Victor, Paris, 1160s, intended, English abbot
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