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| Keywords: Rhenish - Justice - Walters 4499.jpg The bust-length personification of Justice appears as a golden figure cloaked in green and white enamel garments against a blue enamel background The engraved outline of the face is 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 12th century Justice and its mate Charity Walters 44 100 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 1 2 5 0 3 accession number 44 99 31356 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 Justice's head IUSTICIA; Translation Justice Stamped with maker's 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 | ||||
