Editing Rock crystal vase (section)

===Eleanor of Aquitaine's vase===
A [[:fr:Vase de cristal d'Aliénor|rock crystal vase]] with honeycomb decoration that probably originated from either the [[Sasanian Empire|Sassanid]] (6th–7th century) or post-Sassanid (9th–10th century) period that was given to Duke [[William IX of Aquitaine]] (the [[Troubadour]]) by a Muslim ally ([[Abd al-Malik Imad ad-Dawla]]<ref>G.T. Beech, The Eleanor of Aquitaine Vase, William IX of Aquitaine, and Muslim Spain, in ''Gesta'' 32 (1993), pp. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/767013 3-10].</ref> as referred in Latinised form as Mitadolus on the inscription). When Duchess [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]], William IX's granddaughter, married King [[Louis VII of France]] in 1137, she gave him the rock crystal vase as a wedding present.  The inscription finally says that the king gave it to [[Suger]],<ref>Reported by Suger that it was offered to him "in magno amoris munere," or "as a tribute of his great love." From Panofsky's translation of Suger's ''De Administratione'', p.  [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvs32rrm.8 79].</ref> who in turn offered it to the saints, to be kept at the [[Abbey of St.-Denis]] which he had rebuilt.  The vase is now in the [[Louvre]] in [[Paris]], and is the only artefact of Eleanor's known to exist today.