Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, ca. 1173–80

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Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, ca. 1173–80, British, Gilded silver with niello and a glass cabochon set over a tinted foil, 2 3/16 x 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 in. ( x 7 x cm), Metalwork-Silver, This precious silver box was created to contain a relic of the martyred English saint Thomas Becket. Saint Thomas was the archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170, and he is perhaps best known for his struggles with King Henry II of England over the separation between the rights of the monarch and the rights of the church

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