Showcase 36. Works by European masters of the XIIIth - early XVIth century

The Armoury collection possesses a few works by West European makers, displayed in the showcase 36. It includes a pyx, a vessel for the Communion host, a casket-reliquary in the form of a house with a saddleback roof and a square plate of the Crucifixion, executed by the Limoges craftsmen of the XIIIth century. The articles are made of copper and decorated with dark- and light-blue and dark-green enamels. The flowering of the Limoges enamels happened in the XIIth and XIIIth centuries, but in the XIVth century Italian makers, having used transparent enamel as a decorative technique, came to be in great demand.

Also we can see the silver gilded chalice of 1330 with a smooth conical bowl and faceted stem bearing a Latin inscription in black enamel; hand-washing set by Venetian makers, covered with coloured enamels; silver gilded chalice of the early XVIth century, executed in the style of Gothic architecture; two wine vessels, granted to Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow