Reliquaries of Saint Thomas Becket

Several Reliquaries of Saint Thomas Becket were produced by the Limoges enamellists in the 1200s to house relics of Thomas Becket.

Reliquaries in public collections

France

• Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot in Clermont-Ferrand; ^[1]
• Musée de la Sénatorerie in Guéret; ^[2]
• Musée de l'Évêché in Limoges;
• Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon;
• Musée du Louvre in Paris (2 reliquaries - Murder and Burial of Saint Thomas Becket and Martyrdom and Glorification of Saint Thomas Becket;
• Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris (2 reliquaries);
• Sens Cathedral; ^[3]
• Église Saint-Laurent in Le Vigean; ^[3]

Germany

• Schnütgen Museum in Cologne; ^[4]
• Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg; ^[5]

Italy

• Anagni Cathedral;
• Museum of Lucca Cathedral;

the Netherlands

• Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht;

Sweden

• Church in Trönö, Hälsingland

United Kingdom

• Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; ^[6]
• Hereford Cathedral; ^[7]
• British Museum in London;
• Victoria and Albert Museum in London;
• Burrell Collection in Glasgow;

USA

• Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn ^[8] (Pennsylvania);
• Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland ^[9] (plaque);
• Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin ^[5]
• California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco;
• Toledo Art Museum in Toledo; ^[10]

• 
  British Museum
• 
  British Museum
• 
  Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris
• 
  Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris
• 
  Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
• 
  Musée des Beaux-Arts in Limoges

References

1. Corpus des émaux méridionaux, t. II, notice I E 2, n° 16.
2. Corpus des émaux méridionaux, t. II, notice I E 2, n° 10.
3. Foreville 1976 , planche I
4. "St. Cecilia, Cologne".
5. "Martyrdom of Thomas Becket".
6. "Reliquary Casket of St. Thomas Becket".
7. "Hereford Cathedral".
8. Corpus des émaux méridionaux, t. II, notice I E 2, n° 4
9. "Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket".
10. Foreville 1976 , planche II

Sources

• Foreville, Raymonde (October–December 1976). "La diffusion du culte de Thomas Becket dans la France de l'Ouest avant la fin du XIIe siècle". Cahiers de civilisation médiévale (in French) (76): 347–369.

External links

• Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, British ca. 1173–80 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York