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
* Cologne, Germany, 1985: Ornamenta Ecclesiae, no. B112, p. 336, repr. p. 337, Schnutgen-Museum, March 7-June 9, 1985.
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PROVENANCE
Bouvier, Amiens; Spitzer Paris; (Arnold Seligmann Rey & Co., Paris).
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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.
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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.
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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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