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;

Reliquaries of Saint Thomas Becket

Germany

Schnütgen Museum in Cologne; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg;

Reliquaries of Saint Thomas Becket

Italy

Anagni Cathedral; Museum of Lucca Cathedral;

Reliquaries of Saint Thomas Becket

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

External links

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, British ca. 1173–80 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Objets d'art in the Louvre

Collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum

Medieval European objects in the British Museum

Thomas Becket

Limoges enamel