id: 125587 accession number: 1947.508 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.508 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:06.886000 Pendant Triptych with an Onyx Cameo of the Nativity, c. 1460–1500; cameo: c. 1250–1300. Pendant: France, Paris or Tours; Cameo: Italy, 13th-15th century. Basse-taille enamel on gold; onyx cameo; overall: 5.8 x 2 cm (2 5/16 x 13/16 in.); part 1: 4.5 x 3.5 cm (1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.508 title: Pendant Triptych with an Onyx Cameo of the Nativity title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1460–1500; cameo: c. 1250–1300 creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1500 current location: 110B Late Gothic creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Pendant: France, Paris or Tours; Cameo: Italy, 13th-15th century technique: basse-taille enamel on gold; onyx cameo department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Enamel find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 5.8 x 2 cm (2 5/16 x 13/16 in.); Part 1: 4.5 x 3.5 cm (1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: on the outside shutters, the two Prophets hold scrolls with inscriptions on them. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). title: Treasures of Medieval France opening date: 1966-11-16T05:00:00 Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Kremlin Moscow date: footnotes: citations: (Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: -1947 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1947- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. "Exhibition of Gold." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 9 (1947). page number: p. 22 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141408 Evans, Joan. A History of Jewellery, 1100-1870. London: Faber and Faber, 1953. page number: p.79, pl. 33a url: 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. 178 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n43 Milliken, William M. "Early Byzantine Silver." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 45, no. 3 (1958). page number: p. 56 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142265 "Gothic Art 1360-1440." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963). page number: p. 177, fig. 34 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960 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. 75 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n99 Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: p. 322 Cat No. VII 15 url: https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n349/ 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. 75 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n99 Brown University. Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic Art in Europe, 1270 to 1330 : an Exhibition by the Department of Art, Brown University at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, February 2 Through February 27, 1977. [Providence, R.I.]: The Department, 1977. page number: p. 80, Cat. No. 27 url: 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. 84 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n104 Wypyski, Mark T. "Preliminary Compositional Study of 14th and 15th C. European Enamels" TECHNE 6 (1997). page number: p. 49, Fig. 4 url: Carlier, Marie-Amélie. Art du Moyen Âge en Europe. Paris : Brimo de Laroussilhe, 2022. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 128 url: Bianchi, Pamela. Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period: Exhibiting Practices and Exhibition Spaces. New York : Routledge, 2023. page number: Reproduced: p. 119, fig. 7.2 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.508/1947.508_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.508/1947.508_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.508/1947.508_full.tif