The Crucifixion, ca. 1100, Made in Conques, France, French, Gilded copper, cloisonné and champlevé enamel, Overall: 4 1/16 x 1/8 in. (10.3 x 0.3 cm), Enamels-Champlevé & Cloisonné, This medallion, probably from a book cover, can be securely attributed to the celebrated pilgrimage abbey of Conques, France’s richest surviving repository of medieval goldsmiths’ work. Among the rare works dispersed from its treasury in the nineteenth century, several share a distinctive technique, style, and palette uniquely combined during the abbacy of Bégon III in the late eleventh century
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