Many 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;Corpus des émaux méridionaux, t. II, notice I E 2, n° 16. Musée de la Sénatorerie in Guéret;Corpus des émaux méridionaux, t. II, notice I E 2, n° 10. 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;
the Netherlands Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht;
Sweden Church in Trönö, Hälsingland
United Kingdom Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; Hereford Cathedral; British Museum in London (2 reliquaries); Becket Casket in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Burrell Collection in Glasgow;
USA Glencairn Museum in Bryn AthynCorpus des émaux méridionaux, t. II, notice I E 2, n° 4 (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;
Gallery
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