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Source Description
This precious reliquary, adorned on its front and sides with colored glass, precious stones, and two medallions featuring the enthroned Virgin and Child and an eagle, forms part of a group of closely related objects manufactured in the Upper Rhine region shortly after 1300. The purse shape, with its peaked roof and cylindrical top, derives from much earlier Carolingian and Romanesque prototypes. The reliquary was originally suspended from the rings on both sides of the sloping roof.
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Document identity
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113439
label
Reliquary in Purse Form
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113439
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object
title
Reliquary in Purse Form
description
This precious reliquary, adorned on its front and sides with colored glass, precious stones, and two medallions featuring the enthroned Virgin and Child and an eagle, forms part of a group of closely related objects manufactured in the Upper Rhine region shortly after 1300. The purse shape, with its peaked roof and cylindrical top, derives from much earlier Carolingian and Romanesque prototypes. The reliquary was originally suspended from the rings on both sides of the sloping roof.
date
c. 1320
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60761247
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Metalwork
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 17.2 x 13.4 x 7.7 cm (6 3/4 x 5 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)
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Germany, Upper Rhine, Southern Swabia, Gothic period, 14th century
accession
1932.422
Source extras
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copper, gilded and engraved; glass; rock crystal; precious stones; wood core
tombstone
Reliquary in Purse Form, c. 1320. Germany, Upper Rhine, Southern Swabia, Gothic period, 14th century. Copper, gilded and engraved; glass; rock crystal; precious stones; wood core; overall: 17.2 x 13.4 x 7.7 cm (6 3/4 x 5 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1932.422
collection
MED - Gothic
citations
citation
Milliken, William. "A Viennese Reliquary of the Fourteenth Century." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>20, no. 4 (April 1933): 51-56
page_number
Reproduced: front cover, p. 63; Mentioned: p. 53-56
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 151
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 52
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 53
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 05:58:58.639000
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113439
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Medieval Art
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MED - Gothic
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copper, gilded and engraved; glass; rock crystal; precious stones; wood core
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