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| Keywords: Rhenish - Charity - Walters 44100.jpg The bust-length personification of Charity appears as a golden figure against a blue enamel background with green and white enamel borders The engraved outlines of the face hands and drapery are highlighted with red enamel as is the lettering This technique and combination of colors is characteristic of enamels made in the vicinity of Cologne Germany in the second half of the twelfth century Charity and its mate Justice Walters 44 99 plausibly were part of a series illustrating virtues adorning a book cover reliquary shrine or portable altar between 1170 1180 Medieval champlevé enamel on copper with gilding cm 4 2 6 0 3 accession number 44 100 33387 A Tollin Paris by purchase Sale Hotel Drouot Paris May 20 1897 no Jacques Seligmann Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1922 In red enamel on gold gilded scroll above Charity's head CARITAS; Translation Charity Stamped with makers mark on reverse Arts of the Middle Ages Museum of Fine Arts Boston Boston 1940 place of origin southwest Germany Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Rhine-Meuse champlevé Rhenish paintings Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
