id: 104693 accession number: 1923.1051 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.1051 updated: 2025-03-01 12:40:04.552000 The "Spitzer Cross", c. 1190. Master of the Royal Plantagenet Workshop (French). Copper: gilded, engraved, stippled; champlevé enamel; wood backing (modern); overall: 67.4 x 41.9 x 0.2 cm (26 9/16 x 16 1/2 x 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1923.1051 title: The "Spitzer Cross" title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1190 creation date earliest: 1185 creation date latest: 1195 current location: creditline: Gift of J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: France, Limoges, Gothic period, 12th century technique: copper: gilded, engraved, stippled; champlevé enamel; wood backing (modern) department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Enamel find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Master of the Royal Plantagenet Workshop (French) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 67.4 x 41.9 x 0.2 cm (26 9/16 x 16 1/2 x 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscription on titulus: IHS XPS translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Treasures of Medieval France opening date: 1966-11-16T05:00:00 Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). title: Lumen: The Art and Science of Light opening date: 2024-09-10T04:00:00 Lumen: The Art and Science of Light. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (September 10-December 8, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition" no. 13, 1936; p. 19, cat. no. 13.', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, "Enamels" Septembern 18-November 29, 1959; cat. no. 8.', 'opening_date': '1959-11-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Seattle, Worlds Fair, "Masterpieces of Art," April 21-September 4, 1962, no. 8, 1962; cat. no. 8, p. 30, repr. p. 31.', 'opening_date': '1962-09-04T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Treasures from Medieval France," 1966; no. III-31, p. 105, 357-358.', 'opening_date': '1966-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Year 1200," February 14-May 10, 1970; no. 144, p. 139-140.', 'opening_date': '1970-02-14T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Musuem of Art, "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum," 1991, p. 104.', 'opening_date': '1991-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"', 'opening_date': '2007-05-10T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE B. Meyers; Frederic Spitzer, Paris (his sale, Paul Chevalier, Paris, 17 April - 16 June 1893, lot 228); (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS W. M. M. “The Limoges Enamel Cross from the Spitzer Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 2 (February 1924): 30–33, 36-37. page number: Mentioned: p. 30-33; Reproduced: p. 36-37 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136727 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Reproduced: p. 14 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n16 W. M. M., T. S., R. H., and F. A. W. “In Memoriam: Jeptha Homer Wade.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 4 (April 1926): 63–91. page number: Reproduced: p. 74 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136919 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 16 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n20 Milliken. William. "Objects from the Samuel Mather Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 3 (March 1941): 36-40. page number: Mentioned: p. 36 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140911 Milliken, William. "Silver Jubilee Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no.6 (June 1941): 88-108 page number: Mentioned: p. 90 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140932 Milliken, William. "Four Champlevé Enamel Panels." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 4 (April 1951): 72-74. page number: Mentioned: p. 72 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141704 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 113 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n34 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 47 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n71 Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Reproduced: p.108; mentioned: p.107 url: https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n133 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 47 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n69 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 51 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n71 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 156-157, no. 53 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 263 url: Phillips, Glenn, and J. Paul Getty Museum. Lumen : The Art and Science of Light, 800-1600. Edited by Kristen M. Collins and Nancy Turner. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024. page number: Reproduced: p. 147, no. 92 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1051/1923.1051_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1051/1923.1051_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1051/1923.1051_full.tif