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Historical Archive: Musée du Louvre: Metalwork bull's head: copper, mother of pearl, lapis lazuli; mid 3rd millennium BCE Tello (Girsu), Louvre AO 2676 bull's head: copper, mother of pearl, lapis lazuli; mid 3rd millennium BCE Tello (Girsu), Louvre AO 2676 Hercules from Herculaneum (bef. 79 CE), bronze, Louvre hunt, Italy? c.350-400, bronze/silver/copper, Louvre Br 3448/MND 889 hunt Louvre Br 3448: spear hunter, dog hunt Louvre Br 3448: mounted hunter hunt Louvre Br 3448: leopards St. Simeon, silver/gilt, 6th-7th c., Louvre Bj 2180/MND 2035, which has its own page. Rider (Charles the Bald or Charlemagne?), bronze, 9th c., Louvre OA 8260. This work has its own page. paten, metalwork mid to second half 9th c., serpentine plate 1st c. BCE/CE, fish inlay poss. 4th/5th c., Louvre MR 415. This work has its own page. Tablet reliquary, 11th c. Byzantine with Mosan frame and cover c.1160-70, silver gilt and enamel on copper gilt, Louvre OA 8099. This work has its own page. Reliquary icon: frame silver gilt on wood, Constantinople 11th/12th c.; Nativity ivory, Venice?, 12th/13th c.; conversion to reliquary with horn 14th/15th-c. Germany. Louvre OA 11399. This work has its own page. copper alloy mirror w sphinxes, Kufic inscription, Turkey or Iran? 12th-13th c., Louvre OA 3945 mirror w sphinxes, Louvre OA 3945, reflective surface Christ: Byzantine cameo and setting, lapis lazuli, silver gilt, c.1100-50, Louvre MR 95. This side has its own page. Mary: Byzantine cameo and setting, lapis lazuli, silver gilt, c.1100-50, Louvre MR 95. This side has its own page. chalice of Abbot Pélage, silver/gilt, Spain 1135-40, Louvre OA 3201A chalice of Abbot Pélage, Louvre OA 3201A, knop paten of Abbot Pélage, silver/gilt, Spain 1135-40, Louvre OA 3201B Eleanor Vase, metalwork 1137-47, Sasanian or Islamic crystal vessel, Louvre MR 340. This work has its own page. Eagle of Suger, porphyry/silver gilt, Île-de-France bef. 1147, Louvre MR 422, which has its own page centaur archer, enameled copper, Mosan c.1160-70, Louvre 8097 man fighting wyvern, enameled copper, Mosan c.1160-70, Louvre 8098 flabellum fr Wadi Natrun, copper alloy/wood, Egypt, dated 1202, Louvre OA 7947/E 11294 flabellum fr Wadi Natrun, Louvre OA 7947: Virgin and Child reliquary crown, silver gilt and gems, Mosan c. 1260-70, Louvre OA 9445 reliquary crown, silver gilt and gems, Mosan c. 1260-70, Louvre OA 9445 reliquary crown, silver gilt and gems, Mosan c. 1260-70, Louvre OA 9445 Blanche de Champagne from la Joie-Notre-Dame, Hennebont (Morbihan), copper on walnut, Limoges 1286-early 14th c., Louvre OA 2082 Blanche de Champagne from la Joie-Notre-Dame, Hennebont (Morbihan), copper on walnut, Limoges 1286-early 14th c., Louvre OA 2082 Blanche de Champagne from la Joie-Notre-Dame, Hennebont (Morbihan), copper on walnut, Limoges 1286-early 14th c., Louvre OA 2082 reliquary of St. Lawrence's finger, late 13th to early 14th c. France, copper and gilded silver, Louvre reliquary apple, 14th c. France, silver, niello, and gilt, Louvre OA 6712 reliquary apple, 14th c. France, silver, niello, and gilt, Louvre OA 6712 reliquary apple, 14th c. France, silver, niello, and gilt, Louvre OA 6712 Signet ring "of Louis IX", sapphire/gold/enamel, 14th c., Louvre OA MR 92, which has its own page ewer: silver gilt metalwork 14th, 17th, and 18th c.; rock crystal, Paris mid 14th c.; Louvre OA 62A silver gilt metalwork France, 14th-17th c.; rock crystal ewer, France? 14th c.; Louvre OA 29. This work has its own page. enamel funerary plaque: Guy de Meyos kneeling before St Louis, found at Civray (Vienne), Limoges 1307, Louvre OA 7495 St Elizabeth of Hungary, enamel on gilt copper, Sienna c.1310, Louvre OA 2011 Virgin of Jeanne d'Evreux, silver gilt/enamel, 1324-39, Louvre MR 342, which has its own page Muhammad ibn al-Zayn, Baptistère de Saint Louis, Egypt or Syria c.1330-40, Louvre LP16. This work has its own page. Signet ring "of the Black Prince", ruby or garnet/gold/enamel, c.1350-1400, Louvre OA 9597, which has its own page angel reliquaries, silver gilt with paint, France 15th c., Louvre MR 551, 550. These works have their own page. Signet ring, 15th c. gold w. prob. 18th c. sapphire, Louvre OA MRR 229, which has its own page reliquary, silver and email de basse taille on silver gilt, Flanders, 15th c.?, Louvre OA 5566 Deposition with stamp of Santiago de Compostella, jet and silver, 15th or 16th c., Louvre OA 11112 aquamanile in the form of a gryphon, copper alloy, Nürnberg c.1400, Louvre Ring of Jean sans Peur, Paris c.1410, Louvre OA 9524, which has its own page. salt cellar, gold metalwork probably Jaquet de Chiefdeville, 1462, Paris; jasper bowl mid 15th c.; Louvre MV 127. This work has its own page. reliquary of the hand of St Martha from the convent of St Martha of Venice, silver gilt, Giovanni Leon, Venice 1472-74, Louvre OA 5641. This work has its own page. Léonard Limosin (attrib.), enamel on copper from Feuillantines convent (Paris), repeating Chartres composition: Galiot de Genouillac as St Paul, mid 16th c. Limoges, Louvre MR XIII suppl 210 Léonard Limosin (attrib.), enamel on copper from Feuillantines convent (Paris), repeating Chartres composition: François I as St Thomas, mid 16th c. Limoges, Louvre MR XIII suppl 211 Léonard Limosin (attrib.), enamel on copper from Feuillantines convent (Paris), repeating Chartres composition: François I as St Thomas, mid 16th c. Limoges, Louvre MR XIII suppl 211 Léonard Limosin (attrib.), the Dauphin (future François II), enamel on copper, Limoges c.1553, Louvre N 1253 Germain Pilon (1540-90), bronze medallion of Catherine de' Medici, Paris c.1575, Louvre MRR 313 composite with Roman cameos, Luigi Valadier 1785, Louvre MR 46, which has its own page Henry IV as a child, silver 1824, François-Joseph Bosio, Louvre C.C. 37. This work has its own page.