id:			104151
accession number:	1922.307.c
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.307.c
updated:		2023-03-20 14:14:00.373000

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 16.5 cm (2 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1922.307.c

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
current location:		106C Medieval Treasury
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 16.5 cm (2 x 6 1/2 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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This intricately carved ivory panel once decorated the side of a portable altar. One of three plaques, it depicts Christ's apostles and was one of the first major acquisitions of William M. Milliken, the museum's first curator of decorative arts and later director (1930–1958). As Milliken later recalled, the pieces "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."
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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

	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. 16-17
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IMAGES

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