id:			119619
accession number:	1940.471
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.471
updated:		2025-06-25 11:06:46.269000

Plaque from a Book Cover with the Crucifixion, 1200–1250. France, Limousin, Limoges, Gothic period, 13th century. Copper: gilded, engraved, chased; champlevé enamel; wood core; overall: 23.2 x 11.8 x 1.3 cm (9 1/8 x 4 5/8 x 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1940.471

title:				Plaque from a Book Cover with the Crucifixion
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creation date:			1200–1250
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		1250
current location:		106C Medieval Treasury
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	France, Limousin, Limoges, Gothic period, 13th century
technique:	copper: gilded, engraved, chased; champlevé enamel; wood core
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Gothic
type:		Enamel
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measurements: Overall: 23.2 x 11.8 x 1.3 cm (9 1/8 x 4 5/8 x 1/2 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -1940
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1940-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	“Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1940.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 28, no. 3 (1941).
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	Milliken, William. "An Enamel Book Cover Plaque." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>28, no. 9 (November 1941): 137-138.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 134; Mentioned: p. 137
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140952

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 115
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n34

	Campbell, Marian. "Medieval Limoges Enamels in Europe." <em>Antiqvvs </em>3, n. 2 (Spring 2021): 33-38.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 37
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