G.T. Beech, The Eleanor of Aquitaine Vase, William IX of Aquitaine, and Muslim Spain, in Gesta 32 (1993), pp. 3-10.
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. 79.