id: 112958 accession number: 1931.55 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.55 updated: 2024-09-07 11:24:23.413000 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 title: Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1038 or shortly after creation date earliest: 1038 creation date latest: 1043 current location: 106C Medieval Treasury creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund with the addition of a gift from Mrs. Edward B. Greene copyright: --- culture: Germany, Lower Saxony?, 11th century technique: gold: worked in repoussé; cloisonné enamel, intaglio gems, pearls, wood core department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Romanesque type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 24.2 x 21.6 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: translation of inscription on back: For the Relics of the Holy Apostle Peter and the Holy Virgin Liutrudis, Countess Gertrude Ordered this made. 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: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Guelph Treasure. Guelph Museum, Hanover (1861–1866)', 'opening_date': '1861-01-01T04:56:02Z'} * {'description': 'Guelph Treasure. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Vienna (1869)', 'opening_date': '1869-01-01T04:56:02Z'} * {'description': 'Guelph Treasure. Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main (1930), Berlin (1930), Goldschmidt Gallery, New York (1930), Cleveland Museum of Art (1931), Penn. Museum, Philadelphia (1931)', 'opening_date': '1931-01-02T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Treasury, Cathedral of St. Blaise, Brunswick date: footnotes: citations: House of Brunswick-Lüneburg date: footnotes: citations: (Goldschmidt Galleries, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1931 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1931- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- 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: 112316 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 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 relationship: 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 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 relationship: --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. "The Gertrudis Altar and Two Crosses." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 18, no. 2 (1931). page number: pp. 23-6, 34 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137357 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. page number: Cat. No. 2; Mentioned: p. 13 url: Milliken, William. "Silver Jubilee Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no.6 (June 1941): 88-108 page number: Reproduced: p. 102; Mentioned: p. 105 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140932 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. 94 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n31 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. 45 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n69 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. 45 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n67 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. 50 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n70 De Winter, Patrick M. "The Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 1 (1985). page number: pp. 30, 33, 35-36, 40-41, 43-44, 45, 47, 117, 134-135, 136, 139 no3, no; color plates II, IIIB url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159893 Corbet, Patrick. “L'autel portatif de la comtesse Gertrude de Braunschweig (vers 1040): Tradition royale de Bourgogne et conscience aristocratique dans l'Empire des Saliens.” Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 34e année (n°134), (1991): page number: pp 101-04, fig. 6-7 (pl. 3) url: https://www.persee.fr/doc/ccmed_0007-9731_1991_num_34_134_2488 Luckhardt, Jochen, and Franz Niehoff. Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit: Herrschaft und Repräsentation der Welfen 1125-1235 : Katalog der Ausstellung, Braunschweig 1995. München: Hirmer, 1995. page number: no. 120, p. 226; no. 387, p. 514; no. 388, p. 515 url: Boockmann, Andrea. Die verlorenen Teile des 'Welfenschätzes': eine Übersicht anhand des Reliquienverzeichnisses von 1482 der Stiftskirche St. Blasius in Braunschweig. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997. page number: pp. 30, 35, 54, 56, 59, 68, 75, 152, 157 url: Ehlers, Joachim, and Dietrich Kötzsche. Der Welfenschatz und sein Umkreis. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1998. page number: abb. 2, p. 53; abb. 3, p. 54; abb. 7, p. 295 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: pp. 54, 116, no. 19 url: Peter, Michael. Der Gertrudistragaltar aus dem Welfenschatz: eine stilgeschichtliche Untersuchung. Mainz: Von Zabern, 2001. page number: p. 185, 207, 210 url: 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. 116 url: García de Castro Valdés, César. Signvm salvtis: cruces de orfebrería de los siglos V al XII. Oviedo: KRK Ediciones, 2008. page number: pp. 230- 232, fig. 40 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009. page number: p. 40, fig. 35 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: pp. 88-9 url: Hahn, Cynthia J. Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400-Circa 1204. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. page number: p. 97, fig. 44 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. 264 url: Lomartire, Saverio. "Tabula ornata lapidibus diversorum colorum": la legatura preziosa del Codice C nel Museo del Tesoro del Duomo di Vercelli. Roma: Viella, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p. 141, fig. 31 url: Thümmel, Hans Georg. Ikonologie der christlichen Kunst. 2019. page number: Mentioned; p. 164 url: Mikolic, Amanda. Worshiping in Place through Art: The Hidden Gems of the Portable Altar of Countess Gertrude. Cleveland Museum of Art The Thinker Blog on Medium. July 16, 2020. page number: url: https://medium.com/cma-thinker/worshiping-in-place-through-art-the-hidden-gems-of-the-portable-altar-of-countess-gertrude-48f9457d9cc5 Staff. "Lutz Opens a Virtual Office.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 3 (Summer 2020): 11. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 10. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.55/1931.55_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.55/1931.55_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.55/1931.55_full.tif