id: 108885
accession number: 1926.555
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Incense Burner and Stand for an Altar Cross, 1150–75. Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?, Romanesque period, 12th century. Bronze: cast, gilded, engraved, and chased; overall: 18.1 x 12.7 cm (7 1/8 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1926.555
title: Incense Burner and Stand for an Altar Cross
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creation date: 1150–75
creation date earliest: 1150
creation date latest: 1175
current location: 106C Medieval Treasury
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?, Romanesque period, 12th century
technique: bronze: cast, gilded, engraved, and chased
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Romanesque
type: Metalwork
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measurements: Overall: 18.1 x 12.7 cm (7 1/8 x 5 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Juxtapositions
opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00
Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).
title: Ornamenta Ecclesiae: Romanesque Art and Artists in Cologne
opening date: 1985-03-07T05:00:00
Ornamenta Ecclesiae: Romanesque Art and Artists in Cologne. Museum Schnütgen, Cologne, Germany (organizer) (March 7-June 9, 1985).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Cologne, Germany, 1985: Ornamenta Ecclesiae, no. B112, p. 336, repr. p. 337, Schnutgen-Museum, March 7-June 9, 1985.', 'opening_date': '1985-03-07T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Bouvier, Amiens; Spitzer Paris; (Arnold Seligmann Rey & Co., Paris).
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
W. M. M. “Two Medieval Objects from the Rhineland in the J. H. Wade Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 14, no. 4 (April 1927): 56–63.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 62-63
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137019
Winter, Patrick M. de. “The Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 1 (March 1985): 2–160.
page number: Reproduced: p. 97, pl XX; Mentioned: p. 94
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159893
Wilhelmy, Winfried, and Marcel Schawe. Meisterwerke des Bischöflichen Dom- und Diözesanmuseums Mainz. Regensburg : Schnell + Steiner, 2020.
page number: Mentioned: p. 165, reproduced: p. 168, abb. 128
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Lutkenhaus, Hildegard, and Winifried Wilhelmy, Meisterwerke des Bischoflichen Domi Und Diozesanmuseums Mainz 3, Der Mainzer Domschatz, Regensburg: Verlag Schnell & Steiner GmbH, 2022.
page number: p. 168, Abb. 128
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