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    "localId": "112021",
    "label": "Medallion with the Bust of Christ (\"The Cumberland Medallion\"), from the Guelph Treasure",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "112021",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Medallion with the Bust of Christ (\"The Cumberland Medallion\"), from the Guelph Treasure",
    "description": "This medallion may have originally served as a sacerdotal brooch and is the earliest object from the Guelph Treasure, the ecclesiastical treasure of Germany’s Braunschweig (Brunswick) Cathedral.",
    "date": "late 700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.504",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60763615"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamel"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.504/1930.504_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.504/1930.504_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.504/1930.504_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 5.1 x 0.2 cm (2 x 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Germany, Weserraum, Migration period, late 8th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1930.504"
}

{
    "tec": "cloisonné enamel and gold on copper",
    "tombstone": "Medallion with the Bust of Christ (\"The Cumberland Medallion\"), from the Guelph Treasure, late 700s. Germany, Weserraum, Migration period, late 8th century. Cloisonné enamel and gold on copper; diameter: 5.1 x 0.2 cm (2 x 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1930.504",
    "collection": "MED - Migration Period",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 112318,
            "description": "The So-called Horn of Saint Blaise, 1100–1200. South Italy or Sicily, 12th century. Ivory; overall: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1930.740"
        },
        {
            "id": 112022,
            "description": "Monstrance with the \"Paten of Saint Bernward\", c. 1180–1190. Saint Oswald Reliquary Workshop (German). Silver, gilded silver, niello, rock crystal; overall: 34.5 x 15.9 x 14 cm (13 9/16 x 6 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.); part 1: 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.); part 2: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund with additional gift from Mrs. R. Henry Norweb, 1930.505"
        },
        {
            "id": 112316,
            "description": "Arm Reliquary of the Apostles, c. 1190. Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, Romanesque period, late 12th century. Gilt silver, champlevé enamel, oak; overall: 51 x 14 x 9.2 cm (20 1/16 x 5 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1930.739"
        },
        {
            "id": 112319,
            "description": "Book-Shaped Reliquary, c. 1000. Circle of The Master of the Registrum Gregorii (German, active c. 972–1000). Ivory, silver: gilded, pearls, rubies, emeralds, crystals, onyx, carnelian, oak; overall: 31.6 x 24.4 x 7.5 cm (12 7/16 x 9 5/8 x 2 15/16 in.); part 1: 17.8 x 14 cm (7 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1930.741"
        },
        {
            "id": 112958,
            "description": "Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude, 1038 or shortly after. Germany, Lower Saxony?, 11th century. Gold: worked in repoussé; cloisonné enamel, intaglio gems, pearls, wood core; overall: 24.2 x 21.6 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund with the addition of a gift from Mrs. Edward B. Greene 1931.55"
        },
        {
            "id": 112971,
            "description": "Monstrance with a Relic of Saint Sebastian, 1484. Germany, Lower Saxony, Brunswick, Gothic period, 15th century. Gilded silver, rock crystal, bone, parchment; overall: 47 cm (18 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Julius F. Goldschmidt, Z. M. Hackenbroch, and J. Rosenbaum in memory of the Exhibition of the Guelph Treasure held in the Cleveland Museum of Art from 10 January to 1 February 1931, 1931.65"
        },
        {
            "id": 112875,
            "description": "Ceremonial Cross of Count Liudolf, shortly after 1038. Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century. Gold: worked in repoussé; cloisonné enamel; intaglio gems; pearls; wood core; overall: 24.2 x 21.6 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.461"
        },
        {
            "id": 112876,
            "description": "Portable Altar of Countess Gertrude, c. 1045. Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century. Gold, cloisonné enamel, porphyry, gems, pearls, niello, wood core; overall: 10.5 x 27.5 x 21 cm (4 1/8 x 10 13/16 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.462"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "New York, Goldschmidt and Reinhardt Galleries: \"The Guelph Treasure,\"",
            "page_number": "p. 36, no. 2; pl. 3"
        },
        {
            "citation": "W. M. M. “The Acquisition of Six Objects from the Guelph Treasure for the Cleveland Museum of Art: Foreword.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 17, no. 9 (November 1930): 163–165.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 163-165",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137331"
        },
        {
            "citation": "W. M. M. “The Acquisition of Six Objects from the Guelph Treasure for the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 17, no. 9 (November 1930): 165–178, 183.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 175-176; Reproduced: p. 174",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137332"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition: June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936.",
            "page_number": "p. 15, no. 5."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Baltimore, The Baltimore Msueum of Art: \"Early Christian and Byzantine Art\" April 24-June 24, 1947",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 522, LXIX."
        },
        {
            "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. 90",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n30"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Karl der Grosse: Werk und Wirkung</em>. Aachen, Rathaus and Kreuzgang des Domes (June 26–September 19, 1965)",
            "page_number": "no. 125, p. 100."
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 44",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n68"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wixom, William D. <em>Treasures from Medieval France</em>. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 13; mentioned: p. 14; fig. 1",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n41"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 44",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n66"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 48",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n68"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Winter, Patrick M. de. “The Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 1 (March 1985): 2–160.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 133; Reproduced: p. 12, plate IV",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159893"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein<em>. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 114-115, no. 35"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.504",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:55:26.799000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.504/1930.504_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 112021,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Migration Period",
    "med": "cloisonné enamel and gold on copper",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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