id:			104150
accession number:	1922.307.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.307.b
updated:		2019-11-18 09:30:04.952000

Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing Christ and the Apostles, 1050-1100. Germany, Lower Rhine Valley, Romanesque period, 11th century. Walrus ivory; overall: 5.1 x 10.8 cm (2 x 4 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1922.307.b

title:				Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing Christ and the Apostles
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creation date:			1050-1100
creation date earliest:		1050
creation date latest:		1100
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creditline:			Gift of J. H. Wade
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culture:	Germany, Lower Rhine Valley, Romanesque period, 11th century
technique:	walrus ivory
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Romanesque
type:		Ivory
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measurements: Overall: 5.1 x 10.8 cm (2 x 4 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, June 7 - Spetmeber 8, 1991:  "Object Lessons:  Cleveland Creates an Art Museum."

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PROVENANCE

	[Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company, Inc., New York.]
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These intricately carved ivory panels once decorated the sides of a portable altar. Three of the plaques, namely those depicting Christ in Majesty and his apostles, were the first major acquisition of William M. Milliken, the museum's first curator of decorative arts and later director (1930-1958). They were purchased from Emile Rey, the New York partner of Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company, who had been closely associated with J. P. Morgan, Henry Walters, and other important American collectors. The fourth plaque, depicting Christ's crucifixion, was donated by Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company later the same year. As Milliken later recalled, the pieces Rey showed him "were immensely intriguing, monumental in scale, even if tiny in size, the Christ in the Mandorla could have been enlarged and would have graced the tympanum of a great cathedral. . . . These morse [that is, walrus] ivories overwhelmed me . . . Somehow they must come to Cleveland. How was the question. Yet they would and must."
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 13
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n15

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 11
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n15

	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. 99
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n31

	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. 48
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n72

	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. 48
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n70

	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. 52
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n72

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