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Article Dans Une Revue Atti dell’IVSLA, Classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali Année : 2020

On the traces of the gilded and enameled pilgrim flasks held in the treasury of the Saint Anne Basilica in Apt

Françoise Barbe
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This study has been started as part of the Cristallo project devoted to the Renaissance gilded and enameled glasses. Among the various themes of study that should be developed on each piece of this corpus, the study of provenance appears essential to identify unquestionable pieces. Among the most significant objects preserved in the former cathedral in Apt – an important pilgrimage site to Saint Anne in the South of France – are two gilded and enameled pilgrim flasks of a wellknown type. Although the precious Saint Anne’s treasure was the subject of many studies and publications from the XVIIth century to the present, a new study of the sources was necessary. The case of the Apt flasks demonstrates the complexity of certain story and highlights the great amount of time required to establish precise sources, even for well-known pieces. The main objective of this article is to present the few archival sources which give us information on the pair of flasks from 1602 to 1790. One flask is identified in the Remerville relics’ inventory at the end of the XVIIth-beginning of XVIIIth century. Both flasks are clearly identified in the treasure only in 1790. It remains impossible to precisely date the arrival of the flasks in the treasury of Apt. Nevertheless it is now accepted that one of them was used as a reliquary for the veil probably from around 1700.
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Françoise Barbe. On the traces of the gilded and enameled pilgrim flasks held in the treasury of the Saint Anne Basilica in Apt. Atti dell’IVSLA, Classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali, 2020, 178, p. 73-83. ⟨hal-03747545⟩

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