LOT 0504

Medieval Large Limoges Corpus Christi

13TH CENTURY AD

12" (399 grams total, 30.5cm including mount).

A bronze figure of Christ crucified with four nail holes, the reverse hollowed out; crowned head bowed to one side and arms horizontally outstretched, crown engraved with detail, eyes inlaid with blue enamel; legs held parallel with the knees bent and the feet resting on a suppedaneum; vertical folds of the knee-length perizonium decorated with enamel inlays; mounted on a custom-made mount.

Property of a London gentleman; acquired before 1995.

For a similar example see Musée Municipal de l'Evêché, Limoges, accession number 96.538.

From the twelfth century to fourteenth century there was a large industry producing metal objects decorated in enamel using the champlevé technique, of which most of the survivals and probably most of the original production, are religious objects such as reliquaries.