id: 108885 accession number: 1926.555 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.555 updated: 2023-08-24 11:35:19.593000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?, Romanesque period, 12th century technique: bronze: cast, gilded, engraved, and chased department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Romanesque type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 18.1 x 12.7 cm (7 1/8 x 5 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cologne, Germany, 1985: Ornamenta Ecclesiae, no. B112, p. 336, repr. p. 337, Schnutgen-Museum, March 7-June 9, 1985. --- PROVENANCE Bouvier, Amiens; Spitzer Paris; (Arnold Seligmann Rey & Co., Paris). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This object may been have created for a traveling court with its entourage to use for Catholic Mass, where incense could be used in an easily transportable vessel. digital description: wall description: Supported by dragon-shaped feet on its corners, this unusual object is fashioned like a small, centralized church with gabled roofs, a lantern crowned by a turret, and four semi-circular apses. Traces of soot on the interior walls of a nearly identical object in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin indicate that these objects once served as incense burners. The objects’ design with an open turret in the center of the roof further suggests that they may have doubled as stands for altar crosses. The fact that both objects formerly belonged to the Bouvier Collection in Amiens may be taken as an indication that they were made as a pair in the same 12th-century workshop. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.555/1926.555_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.555/1926.555_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.555/1926.555_full.tif