- Source: Reliquaries of Saint Thomas Becket
Several Reliquaries of Saint Thomas Becket were produced by the Limoges enamellists in the 1200s to house relics of Thomas Becket.
Reliquaries in public collections
France
Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot in Clermont-Ferrand;
Musée de la Sénatorerie in Guéret;
Musée de l'Évêché in Limoges;
Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon;
Musée du Louvre in Paris (2 reliquaries - Murder and Burial of Saint Thomas Becket and Martyrdom and Glorification of Saint Thomas Becket;
Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris (2 reliquaries);
Sens Cathedral;
Église Saint-Laurent in Le Vigean;
Germany
Schnütgen Museum in Cologne;
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg;
Italy
Anagni Cathedral;
Museum of Lucca Cathedral;
Sweden
Church in Trönö, Hälsingland
United Kingdom
Ashmolean Museum in Oxford;
Hereford Cathedral;
British Museum in London;
Victoria and Albert Museum in London;
Burrell Collection in Glasgow;
USA
Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn (Pennsylvania);
Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland (plaque);
Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin
California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco;
Toledo Art Museum in Toledo;
References
Sources
Foreville, Raymonde (October–December 1976). "La diffusion du culte de Thomas Becket dans la France de l'Ouest avant la fin du XIIe siècle". Cahiers de civilisation médiévale (in French) (76): 347–369.
External links
Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, British ca. 1173–80 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York