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Condemnation and Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Date: c. 1180
Medium: gilded copper, champlevé enamel
Culture: Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?, Romanesque period, 12th century
Department: Medieval Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 127106

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Champleve enameling is a process in which the artist carves designs into copper plates, and then powdered glass is applied before firing in a furnace, causing the glass to fuse into enamel. In this case, the copper was then gilded and polished. This type of enameling is still done today, mostly for jewelry and decorative items.

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Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance: Basilewsky, Paris; The Hermitage, Leningrad; The Brummer Gallery, Inc., New York; (R. Stora & Co., New York).

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