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French 12th Century (cup Alexandrian 2nd/1st Century B.C.) French 12th Century (artist) Chalice of the Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, 2nd/1st century B.C. (cup); 1137-1140 (mounting) sardonyx cup with heavily gilded silver mounting, adorned with filigrees set with stones, pearls, glass insets, and opaque white glass pearls overall (height): 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.) overall (diam. at base): 11.7 cm (4 5/8 in.) overall (diam. at top): 12.4 cm (4 7/8 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.277 On View |
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| 1625 | Doublet, Dom Jacques. Histoire de l'Abbaye Royale de Saint Denys en France. Paris, 1625. |
| 1641 | Duchesne, François. Historia Francorum. Vol. 4. Paris, 1641. |
| 1706 | Félibien, Michael. Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Denys en France. 1706. Reprint Paris, 1976, recueil de pièces justificatives, part 2, 172-187. |
| 1781 | Bouquet, Martin. Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France. Vol. 12. Paris, 1781. 2d ed., Paris, 1877. |
| 1867 | Lecoy de la Marche, A. Oeuvres complètes de Suger. Paris, 1867. |
| 1883 | Rohault de Fleury, Charles. La Messe. Etudes archéologiques sur ses monuments. 8 vols. Paris, 1883-1889, 4:123-124, pl. 309. |
| 1901 | Omont, Henri. Inventaire du trésor de Saint-Denis en 1505 et 1739. Paris, 1901. |
| 1910 | Guibert, Joseph. Les dessins du cabinet de Peiresc au Cabinet des Estampes de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris, 1910: 27-28, 33-35, 39, 41-43, 46, pl. III. |
| 1915 | Conway, Sir W. Martin. "The Abbey of Saint-Denis and its Ancient Treasures." Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity 66 (1915): 103-158, pl. 16. |
| 1923 | Ricci, Seymour de. "Un calice du trésor de Saint-Denis." Académie des inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: Comptes Rendus des séances de l'année Paris (1923): 335-339. |
| 1926 | Rosenberg, Marc. "Ein wiedergefundener Kelch." Festschrift zum sechzigsten Geburtstag von Paul Clemen. Bonn, 1926: 209-217. |
| 1928 | Rosenberg, Marc. Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen. 3d ed. 4 vols. Frankfurt-am-Main, 1922-1928: 4:311-312. |
| 1932 | Braun, Joseph, S.J. Das Christliche Altargerät in seinem Sein und in seiner Entwicklung. Munich, 1932: 46-47, pl. 3, fig. 8. |
| 1942 | Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 9. |
| 1946 | Panofsky, Erwin. Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis and its Art Treasures. Princeton, 1946. 2d ed. edited by Gerda Panofsky-Soergel. Princeton, 1979. |
| 1949 | Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 10, 171, note 1, repro. 27. |
| 1952 | Christensen, Edwin O. Objects of Medieval Art from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1952: 6-7. |
| 1957 | Guth, Paul. "Le trésor fabuleux des rois mages." CA 70 (December 1957): 147. |
| 1957 | Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): 1, pl. 1 |
| 1960 | Revel, J.F. "Un problème controversé: l'exil des oeuvres d'art." CA 96 (February 1960): 36-43, color pl. |
| 1965 | Crosby, Sumner McKnight. "The Creative Environment." Ventures, Magazine of the Yale Graduate School 5, no. 2 (1965): 10-15. |
| 1967 | Treasures from Medieval France. Exh. cat. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967: 70-71, color repro. |
| 1967 | Wentzel, Hans. "Abseitige Trouvaillen an Goldschmied." Studien zur Buchmalerei und Goldschmiedekunst des Mittelalters. Fest. K.H. Usener. Marburg-an-der-Lahn, 1967: 65-78, especially 74-75, figs. 14-15. |
| 1969 | von Euw, Anton. In Fillitz, Hermann. Das Mittelalter I. Propyläen Kunstgeschichte. Vol. 5. Berlin, 1969: 256. |
| 1971 | Frisch, Teresa G. "Gothic Art 1140 -c. 1450." Sources and Documents in the History of Art. Ed. by H. W. Janson. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1971: 11. |
| 1972 | Lasko, Peter. Ars Sacra. Pelican History of Art. Baltimore, 1972: 227. |
| 1973 | Montesquiou-Fezensac, Blaise de, and Gabrielle Gaborit-Chopin. Le Trésor de Saint-Denis, Inventaire de 1634. Paris, 1973: 38, 57-58, 164-165. |
| 1975 | Verdier, Philippe. "Réflexions sur l'esthétique de Suger." Etudes de civilisation médiévale: Mélanges offerts à Edmond-René Labande. Poitiers, 1975: 699-709, 700-702, figs. 1, 2. |
| 1975 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 36, color repro. |
| 1977 | Montesquiou-Fezensac, Blaise de, and Gabrielle Gaborit-Chopin. Le Trésor de Saint-Denis. Document divers. Paris, 1977: 177-181. |
| 1977 | Montesquiou-Fezensac, Blaise de, and Gabrielle Gaborit-Chopin. Le Trésor de Saint-Denis. Planches et notices. Paris, 1977: 57-59, pls. 41-43. |
| 1981 | The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (1125-1151). Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1981: 108-111. |
| 1983 | Brenk, B. "Suger Spolien." Arte Medievale 1 (1983): 107. |
| 1984 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 34, color repro. 35. |
| 1990 | Verdier, Philippe. "The Chalice of Abbot Suger." Studies in the History of Art 24 (1990): 9-29. |
| 1991 | Le Trésor de Saint-Denis. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1991: no. 28, repro. 175. |
| 1992 | National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 308, repro. |
| 1993 | Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timonthy H. Wilson. Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 4-12, color repro. 4. |
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