Processional or Altar Cross from the Abbey of Grandmont

late 12th century (Medieval)

25.5 cm 38 cm 0.5 cm

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On this cross, Christ is shown as emaciated and suffering with bright red enamel wounds and red-rimmed eyes. The light blue censers (incense burners) seen below Christ's hands likely swung in the hands of angels (now lost from the ends of the cross) as shown in another cross f...

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Prince Alexis Dmitrievitch Saltykoff (Aleksei Dmitrievich Saltykov), by purchase; Alexei Alexandrovitch Saltykoff-Golovkin (Aleksei Aleksandrovich Saltykov-Golovkin), 1858, by inheritance; Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 8, 1861, no. 96; Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, Paris, April 17, 1893, no. ???; Sale, New York, 1929; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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