Keywords: Mosan Workshop - Reliquary Panel of the Triumphant Christ - Walters 57519.jpg The image of the triumphant Christ is taken from Psalm 91 You will tread on the lion and the adder the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot This and another panel now in the British Museum London might once have been part of a large reliquary chasse made in the twelfth century to hold the remains of Saint Oda of Amay When a new chasse for Saint Oda was made in the thirteenth century these pieces of the older reliquary were not discarded but refashioned into separate smaller reliquaries In fact the now lost twelfth-century chasse itself was made with recycled materials the figure of Christ triumphantly trampling the beasts seen on the Baltimore reliquary appears to be even older perhaps taken and reused from an eleventh-century altar frontal Panel late 11th century; Frame 13th century Medieval silver gilded silver with champlevé enamel and horn bovine H 23 1/16 x W 14 15/16 x D at metal surface 1 15/16 in 58 5 x 38 x 5 cm ; D with rock crystal cm 5 56 accession number 57 519 5868 Hollingworth Magniac Colworth Bedford prior to 1862 by purchase Charles Magniac Colworth 1867 by inheritance Colworth Collection Sale Christie's London July 4 1892 no 494 A Tollin Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase A Tollin Sale Hotel Drouot Paris May 20 1897 no 93 Jacques Seligmann Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters Baltimore ca 1900 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters ca 1900 Masterpieces of Art Century 21 Exposition Seattle World's Fair Seattle World's Fair Seattle 1962 Treasures of Heaven The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; The British Museum London 2010-2011 place of origin east Belgium Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Metalwork by Mosan workshops Rhine-Meuse champlevé Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Oda of Amay Psalm 91 |