Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Date

ca. 1173–80

Type

Reliquary box

Medium

Gilded silver with niello and a glass cabochon set over a tinted foil

Department

Medieval Art

Culture

British

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

17.190.520

Credit

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917