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This part of the Western Gallery of the Small Hermitage
is used to house an exhibition of Western European decorative and
applied art of the 12th to 15th century. On display is a large collection
of Limoges champlevé enamels, Hispano-Moorish faience, metal
and ivory articles, as well as artistic woodcarvings. Particularly
noteworthy are the mid-14th-century Fortuni Vase, decorated with Eastern
ornament, a reliquary casket bearing scenes from the life of St Valeria,
a typical product of the mediaeval workshops of Limoges and a late
15th-century German tapestry of The Apostles Thomas and Matthew,
one of the earliest in the Hermitage collection. |
