The 7thC Theuderic reliquary casket, from the Abbey of St. Maurice, Switzerland (image via http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2014/04/treasures-of-st-maurice-abbey-at-louvre.html?m=1 …)pic.twitter.com/E43ZCcP2AK
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10thC Fatimid crystal panel w/ ibexes on reliquary casket of c.1200, Moûtiers-en-Tarentaise: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/MusCluny_22.jpg …pic.twitter.com/eylNxyjuv3
The Becket Casket---L12thC reliquary casket w/ scenes from the life of St Thomas Becket: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Becket_casket_VandA_M.66-1997_n01.jpg …pic.twitter.com/jmMovlUmtV
@caitlinrgreen @DorothyKing So beautiful! *faints*
@LoreleiKing @DorothyKing It's wonderful---lots of similar ones, but this especially lovely! http://m.vam.ac.uk/collections/item/O80222/the-becket-casket-casket-unknown/ …
A lovely L8thC portable reliquary with leather carrying strap, Sens cathedral, Burgundy: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/SensReliquary.html …pic.twitter.com/8dBsc5ig2n
Is the Viking hostage on 8th/9thC Inchmarnock stone carrying a portable reliquary...? http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_306131_en.pdf …pic.twitter.com/PM3nSuA8A3
looks more like a handbag :-)
Seen at @museecluny it was the fashion of the time and came in many sizes for Relicistaspic.twitter.com/LHRpYGsLAU
Absolutely! All the cool people had handbag reliquaries in the 8thC/9thC ;)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/710212947247828992 …
I wonder what was the missing piece http://laclefdesrunes.centerblog.net/6551998-Le-coffret-de-Mortain- … Likely Northumbrianpic.twitter.com/UzXAjgkFO2
The Bamberg Casket---10thC Viking casket w/ walrus ivory decorated in Mammen style, via Tumblr see https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gYBJCAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT371&pg=PT774#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/vaJVZqckN9
Enlarged pics of these beautiful artifacts r amazing 4 their detail & color. Assume museums did this work. Great job to all.
Some of them, yes; others by the abbey where found, if I recall correctly :) More here: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/739178538461433856 … :)
Runic inscription on the base of the probably 8thC Mercian Gandersheim Casket, via https://www.academia.edu/6584986/The_Runic_Inscription_on_the_Gandersheim_Casket_Tineke_Looijenga_and_Theo_Vennemann …, but see https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tZkzAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT380&lpg=PT380#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/7xrtyV8duP
@caitlinrgreen @DorothyKing Stop tweeting these beautiful things that make me want to plunder the world's museums!
@caitlinrgreen All of them tremendous what a craftsmanship
@Umarkarim89 Absolutely! :)
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