id: 112316
accession number: 1930.739
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Arm Reliquary of the Apostles, c. 1190. Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, Romanesque period, late 12th century. Gilt silver, champlevé enamel, oak; overall: 51 x 14 x 9.2 cm (20 1/16 x 5 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1930.739
title: Arm Reliquary of the Apostles
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creation date: c. 1190
creation date earliest: 1180
creation date latest: 1200
current location: 106C Medieval Treasury
creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture: Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, Romanesque period, late 12th century
technique: gilt silver, champlevé enamel, oak
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Romanesque
type: Metalwork
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measurements: Overall: 51 x 14 x 9.2 cm (20 1/16 x 5 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.)
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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: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00
Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).
title: Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte, Kunst, Kultur (The Staufer Period: History, Art, Culture)
opening date: 1977-03-26T05:00:00
Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte, Kunst, Kultur (The Staufer Period: History, Art, Culture). Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany (organizer) (March 26-June 5, 1977).
title: All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection
opening date: 1994-11-23T05:00:00
All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 23, 1994-January 8, 1995).
title: Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit (Henry the Lion and his time)
opening date: 1995-08-06T04:00:00
Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit (Henry the Lion and his time). Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum (organizer) (August 6-November 12, 1995).
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: Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe
opening date: 2010-10-17T00:00:00
Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 17, 2010-January 17, 2011); The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (February 13-May 15, 2011); The British Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (June 23-October 9, 2011).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Guelph Museum, Hanover, Germany (1861-66).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Vienna, Austria (1869).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (1930).', 'opening_date': '1930-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Goldschmidt Gallery, New York, NY (1931).', 'opening_date': '1931-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Zeit der Staufer I, Würtemburgisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, (March-August 1977).', 'opening_date': '1977-03-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Monastery of St. Cyriakus, Brunswick
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Treasury, Cathedral of St. Blaise, Brunswick
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House of Brunswick-Lüneburg (part of Guelph Treasure)
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(Goldschmidt Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1930
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1930-
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RELATED WORKS
id: 112021
Medallion with the Bust of Christ ("The Cumberland Medallion"), from the Guelph Treasure, late 700s. Germany, Weserraum, Migration period, late 8th century. Cloisonné enamel and gold on copper; diameter: 5.1 x 0.2 cm (2 x 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1930.504
relationship:
id: 112022
Monstrance with the "Paten of Saint Bernward", c. 1180–1190. Saint Oswald Reliquary Workshop (German). Silver, gilded silver, niello, rock crystal; overall: 34.5 x 15.9 x 14 cm (13 9/16 x 6 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.); part 1: 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.); part 2: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund with additional gift from Mrs. R. Henry Norweb 1930.505
relationship:
id: 112318
The So-called Horn of Saint Blaise, 1100–1200. South Italy or Sicily, 12th century. Ivory; overall: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1930.740
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id: 112319
Book-Shaped Reliquary, c. 1000. Circle of The Master of the Registrum Gregorii (German, active c. 972–1000). Ivory, silver: gilded, pearls, rubies, emeralds, crystals, onyx, carnelian, oak; overall: 31.6 x 24.4 x 7.5 cm (12 7/16 x 9 5/8 x 2 15/16 in.); part 1: 17.8 x 14 cm (7 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1930.741
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id: 112958
Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude, 1038 or shortly after. Germany, Lower Saxony?, 11th century. Gold: worked in repoussé; cloisonné enamel, intaglio gems, pearls, wood core; overall: 24.2 x 21.6 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund with the addition of a gift from Mrs. Edward B. Greene 1931.55
relationship:
id: 112971
Monstrance with a Relic of Saint Sebastian, 1484. Germany, Lower Saxony, Brunswick, Gothic period, 15th century. Bone, parchment; overall: 47 cm (18 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Julius F. Goldschmidt, Z. M. Hackenbroch, and J. Rosenbaum in memory of the Exhibition of the Guelph Treasure held in the Cleveland Museum of Art from 10 January to 1 February 1931 1931.65
relationship:
id: 112875
Ceremonial Cross of Count Liudolf, shortly after 1038. Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century. Gold: worked in repoussé; cloisonné enamel; intaglio gems; pearls; wood core; overall: 24.2 x 21.6 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.461
relationship:
id: 112876
Portable Altar of Countess Gertrude, c. 1045. Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century. Gold, cloisonné enamel, porphyry, gems, pearls, niello, wood core; overall: 10.5 x 27.5 x 21 cm (4 1/8 x 10 13/16 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.462
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CITATIONS
Neumann, Wilhelm Anton, and Wenzel August Neumann. Der Reliquienschatz des Hauses Braundschweig-Lüneburg. Wien: Alfred Hölder, 1891.
page number: no. 47
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Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main. Stadel-Jahrbuch. Munchen: Prestel Verlag, 1921.
page number: pp. 326, 329-331, 333-4, 338, 381
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Bossert, Helmuth Theodor. Geschichte des Kunstgewerbes aller Zeiten und Völker, in Verbindung mit zahlreichen Fachgelehrten herausgegeben von Dr. H. Th. Bossert. Berlin: E. Wasmuth, a.g, 1928.
page number: p. 289
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Guelph Treasure, Catalogue of the Exhibition. [NEW YORK, NEW YORK]: [GOLDSCHMIDT, LUCIEN, GALLERY], 1930.
page number: Cat. no. 30, pls 65-6
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Falke, Otto von, Robert Schmidt, and Georg Swarzenski. Der Welfenschatz. Der Reliquienschatz des Braunschweiger Domes aus dem Besitze des herzoglichen Hauses Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt a. g, 1930.
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Eckhardt, Ferdinand. 1930. “Exhibition of the Guelph Treasure in Frankfort and Berlin.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 12 (October): 305–6.
page number: p. 306
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Falke, Otto von "Hildesheimer Goldschmiedewerke des 12. Jahrhunderts im Welfenschatz," Pantheon vol 5 (June 1930).
page number: p. 274
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W. M. M. “The Acquisition of Six Objects from the Guelph Treasure for the Cleveland Museum of Art: Foreword.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 9 (November 1930): 163–165.
page number: Mentioned: p. 163-165; Reproduced: p. 162
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137331
Art Digest (September 1930).
page number: p. 5
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Illus. London News (November 29, 1930).
page number: p. 5
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Frankfurter, A.M. Antiquariun (Dec. 1930).
page number: p. 66
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W. M. M. “The Acquisition of Six Objects from the Guelph Treasure for the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 9 (November 1930): 165–178, 183.
page number: Mentioned: p. 165-166; reproduced: p. 183
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137332
Milliken, William Mathewson "The Guelph Treasure" The American Magazine of Art 22, no. 3 (1931).
page number: p. 168, 171
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23935911
Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition: June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936.
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ARTS Magazine 29 (October 1, 1954).
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Leitermann,Heinz, Deutsche Goldschmide-Kunst (Stuttgart, 1954).
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Milliken, WIlliam "The Guelph Treasure in Cleveland" The American-German Review (Dec. 1955-Jan. 1956).
page number: pp. 5-10
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ART News (Summer, 1957).
page number: p. 46
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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. 104
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n32
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. 50
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n74
Swarzenski, Hanns. Monuments of Romanesque Art: The Art of Church Treasures in North-Western Europe. London: Faber, 1967.
page number: cat. no. 212, pl. 212, figs. 496-98
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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. 50
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Elsen, Albert E. The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture; From Rodin to 1969. 1969.
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Hoffmann, Konrad, and Florens Deuchler. The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 12 Through May 10, 1970. 1970.
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Sauerländer, Willibald. ""The Year 1200," a Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. February 12-May 10, 1970." The Art Bulletin 53, no. 4 (1971)
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Württembergisches Landesmuseum, and Reiner Haussherr. Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte, Kunst, Kultur : Katalog der Ausstellung [Stuttgart, Altes Schloss und Kunstgebäude, 26. März-5. Juni 1977]. Stuttgart: Württembergisches Landesmuseum, 1977.
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page number: pp. 82, 87- 88, 131, 133-134, 136, 140; no. 27, nn.64, 96, fig. 111; color plates XIV-XVIII
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Fliegel, Stephen N. Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009.
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Bagnoli, Martina. Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010.
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Weinryb, Ittai. "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe". West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 18(2) (2011).
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