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Ici, seul le panneau int\u00e9rieur bord\u00e9 d\u2019une fine frise de palmettes stylis\u00e9es, en argent dor\u00e9 repouss\u00e9 et grav\u00e9, avec au centre une logette \u00e0 relique, aujourd\u2019hui vide, est byzantin. Cette logette, \u00e0 l\u2019origine en forme de croix \u00e0 double traverse - dite croix byzantine - fut raccourcie et transform\u00e9e en croix latine \u00e0 une seule traverse. De part et d\u2019autre de la croix, se tiennent la Vierge et saint Jean tandis que deux anges en buste apparaissent dans les angles sup\u00e9rieurs. Le panneau d\u2019origine a \u00e9t\u00e9 agrandi par une frise de rinceaux, de plaques d\u2019\u00e9mail champlev\u00e9 aux couleurs vives qui alternent avec des filigranes et des pierreries. \r\nSur le couvercle, ces m\u00eames filigranes et pierreries forment une croix \u00e0 double traverse aux extr\u00e9mit\u00e9s trilob\u00e9es, mise en valeur par un fond en argent dor\u00e9 uni. La plaque de cuivre du revers est orn\u00e9e de grands feuillages obtenus au vernis brun.Le couvercle et le bo\u00eetier, inspir\u00e9s sans doute du reliquaire d\u2019origine sont l\u2019\u0153uvre d\u2019un orf\u00e8vre occidental travaillant dans des r\u00e9gions du Rhin ou de la Meuse au d\u00e9but du XIIIe si\u00e8cle.","inscriptions":"","namesAndTitles":"","onomastics":"","dimension":[{"type":"Hauteur","value":"29,5","displayDimension":"29,5 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":1,"note":""},{"type":"Largeur","value":"22,5","displayDimension":"22,5 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":2,"note":""},{"type":"Epaisseur","value":"5,3","displayDimension":"5,3 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":3,"note":""},{"type":"Hauteur","value":"13","displayDimension":"13 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":4,"note":""},{"type":"Largeur","value":"10","displayDimension":"10 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":5,"note":""}],"shape":"","materialsAndTechniques":"Mat\u00e9riau : vermeil = argent dor\u00e9 (repouss\u00e9e et grav\u00e9)\r\nMat\u00e9riau : cuivre (plaques d\u0027\u00e9mail champlev\u00e9 sur cuivre)\r\nMat\u00e9riau secondaire : bois\r\nTechnique : vernis brun (techniques m\u00e9tal-\u003Evernis = vernissage) (revers)","placeOfCreation":"Byzance (reliquaire) ; vall\u00e9e de la Meuse (R\u00e9gion mosane-\u003EMeuse) (encadrement et couvercle)","dateOfDiscovery":"","placeOfDiscovery":"","provenance":"","historicalContext":[],"objectHistory":"D\u0027apr\u00e8s la notice 139 du catalogue de l\u0027exposition de Gand de 1851, le reliquaire se trouvait \u00e0 cette date dans la collection du s\u00e9nateur Fran\u00e7ois-Joseph Vergauwen (1801-1881 ) : \u0022Reliquaire renfermant des reliques de la vraie Croix. Cette pr\u00e9cieuse Relique fut apport\u00e9e de Constantinople par un des Princes Belges revenant des Croisades, et donn\u00e9e \u00e0 une ancienne abbaye du pays de Li\u00e8ge\u0022 ; collection Victor Martin le Roy (1842-1918) ; donation de M. et Mme Victor Martin le Roy, 1913 ; cf. AN 20144787\/16, 1914 16 mars, \u0022M. Martin-Le Roy. Don de 15 objets d\u0027art m\u00e9di\u00e9vaux et Renaissance\u0022 - estimation : \u0022un tableau reliquaire art mosan estim\u00e9 25 000 francs (n\u00b0 12 du catalogue)\u0022 ; entr\u00e9e au mus\u00e9e en 1929 ; conseil du 3 juin 1929.","jabachInventory":"","napoleonInventory":"","previousOwner":[{"value":"Vergauwen, Fran\u00e7ois Joseph","note":"","role":", Collectionneur"},{"value":"M. 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