# Casket with Scenes of Courtly Love [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN GOLDSMITH, French]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Champlevé enamel, 9 x 21 x 16 cm ## Commentary Casket with Scenes of Courtly Love c. 1180 Champlevé enamel, 9 x 21 x 16 cm British Museum, London The designs of the Limoges enamels reflects the influence of Islamic art. Backgrounds are usually decorated with a dense, intertwined pattern, or with small geometric patterns. The colours of the enamels are anti-naturalistic, and are applied in flat areas. Limoges enamels were produced not in response to a commission from a patron, but in answer to market demand provided by the pilgrimage route through southwest France and northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Faith in Baptism]() - [Angel Reliquary \(detail\)]() - [Angel Reliquary]() - [Aquamanile]() - [Binding of a Book of Hours]() - [Bust Reliquary]() - [Butterfly Reliquary]() - [Casket with Scenes of Courtly Love]() - [Corpus]() - [Enseigne with battle composition]() - [Fibula of Picquigny]() - [Golden Horse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()