La staurothèque de Poitiers

Abstract

These two short notices concern the reliquary of the True Cross and its casket which were preserved in the abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers up until 1792. Only the central plaque decorated in cloisonné enamelling, a Constantinopolitan work of the second half of the XIth century, has corne down to us from the staurotheque in the form of a triptych. The casket, which once housed the reliquary and which has now disappeared, can be attributed to the school of Charles the Bald.