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| Keywords: French - Figure of a Deacon - Walters 4418 - Back.jpg This relief figure resembles a statuette now in the church of Les Billanges western France Both figures hold a rectangular object upright against their chest that has been identified as a reliquary of the True Cross representing that sent to the nearby Abbey of Grandmont by King Amaury of Jerusalem r 1162-74 Like the French statuette this example was part of a monument that once graced the church of Grandmont perhaps a monumental cross or an altar frontal Grandmont was a religious foundation established by St Stephen of Muret ca 1044-1125 A number of enamels survive from the main church and its dependencies between 1230 1239 Medieval gilded copper repoussé engraved and chased champlevé enamel cm 13 5 5 accession number 44 18 3732 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Reliquaries and Ritual Medieval Objects of Devotion The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984-1985 Realms of Faith Medieval and Byzantine Art from the Walters Art Museum Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville 2001-2002 Realms of Faith Medieval and Byzantine Art from the Walters Art Museum Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville 2002-2005 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Champlevé of Europe Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
