Set of two champlevé enamel plates: 1. Oblong-shaped... Lot 57

Set of two champlevé enamel plates: 1. Oblong-shaped domed plate in champlevé, enameled, cloisonné and gilded copper; green, red and white enamel. Decorated with rosettes in a diamond pattern. Rheno-mosan, second half of the 12th century Height: 2 cm - Length: 8 cm (some missing enamel) Provenance : - Sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité, June 8, 1923, exp. Leman, lot 49, rep. - Collection Germain Séligman, New York, n°94 (J. Richardson, ″The Collection of Germain Seligman - Paintings, Drawings and Works of art, 1979, New York, n.d, n°94.) - Galerie Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris. 2. Champlevé copper plate, enameled and gilded; yellow, blue and green enamel. Decorated with piastres. Rheno-mosan, second half of the 12th century Height: 1.7 cm - Length: 8.3 cm (cracks, worn gilding) Provenance : - Koffler Truniger Collection, Lucerne, no. 628 (until 1971). - Keir Collection, (New-York sale, Sotheby's, November 20, 1997, Keir Collection, lot 13). Bibliography: H. Schnitzler, P. Bloch and C. Ratton, Emailarbeiten, Lucerne and Stuttgart, 1965, cat. E28, pl.35. Exhibitions: - Zurich 1964, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, Kunsthaus, cat. 840. - Kansas City 1983, The Keir Collection, Nels on Atkins Museum of Art, cat. 9. These two interesting enamelled elements were probably part of the decoration of formerly dismembered shrine pieces.