id: 127107 accession number: 1949.431 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.431 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:13.273000 Pyx, c. 1170–1180. Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?, Romanesque period, enamels: 12th century; wood core: 19th century. Gilded copper, champlevé and cloisonné enamel, wood core (modern); overall: 5.4 x 21.3 x 9.3 cm (2 1/8 x 8 3/8 x 3 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and the Fanny Tewksbury King Collection by exchange 1949.431 title: Pyx title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1170–1180 creation date earliest: 1170 creation date latest: 1180 current location: 106C Medieval Treasury creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and the Fanny Tewksbury King Collection by exchange copyright: --- culture: Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?, Romanesque period, enamels: 12th century; wood core: 19th century technique: gilded copper, champlevé and cloisonné enamel, wood core (modern) department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Romanesque type: Enamel find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 5.4 x 21.3 x 9.3 cm (2 1/8 x 8 3/8 x 3 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: + H[A]EC DATA P[ER] IVSTV[M] […]AT IN CRVCE VICTIMA CHR[ISTV]M translation: remark: inscription: + HOC ARIES P(RE)FERT Q[VO]D […] D[EV]S HOSTIA P[ER]FERT translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Reflection of Heaven--Romanesque in Hildesheim opening date: 2001-08-15T00:00:00 Reflection of Heaven--Romanesque in Hildesheim. Dom-Museum Hildesheim, Germany (August 15-December 16, 2001). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Dom-Museum Hildesheim, Germany; August 15-December 16, 2001. "Reflection of Heaven--Romanesque in Hildesheim," exh. cat. no. 4.34, p. 181.', 'opening_date': '2001-08-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"', 'opening_date': '2007-05-10T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE George Eumorfopoulos, London (sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 5-6 June 1940, no. 185); Joseph Brummer, New York (sale, Parke-Bernet, 23 April 1949, no. 713, pl. 713, p. 189) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Read, Herbert. "The Eumorfopoulos Collection: Western Objects-I." Apollo III, 16 (April 1926): 187-192. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 187-188, fig. I, II url: von Falke, Otto. "Hildesheimer Goldschmiedewerke des 12 Jahrhunderts im Welfenschatz." Pantheon V (June 1930): 266-274. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 272, abb. 7 url: Milliken, William M. “New Accessions of Champlevé Enamel.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 36, no. 9 (November 1949): 167–70. page number: Reproduced: P. 166; Mentioned: P. 168-170 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141581 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. 109 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n33 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 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 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n72 Verdier, Philippe. “The Cleveland Portable Altar from Hildesheim.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 10 (December 1974): 339–342. page number: Mentioned: P. 339-340; Reproduced: P. 339 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152557 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. 54 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n74 Winter, Patrick M. de. “The Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 1 (March 1985): 2–160. page number: Mentioned: P. 78-79, 150; Reproduced: P. 64, 77, Pl. XII, fig. F url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159893 Brandt, Michael. Abglanz des Himmels: Romanik in Hildesheim : Katalog zur Ausstellung des Dom-Museums Hildesheim, Hildesheim 2001. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2001. page number: Mentioned: P. 142, 194, no. 4.34; Reproduced: P. 180, no. 4.34 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 130-131, no. 43 url: Klein, Holger A. 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. 140-141, no. 47 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 97-98, fig. 75 url: Kemper, Dorothee, and Clemens M. M. Bayer. Die Hildesheimer Emailarbeiten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts: mit einer kommentierten Edition der Inschriften von Clemens M.M. Bayer. Regensburg : Schnell + Steiner, 2020, 241-249 page number: Mentioned and reproduced; pp. 241-249, Abb. 118-126. url: Couzin, Robert. Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art. Boston : Brill, 2021, 24. page number: Mentioned; p. 24, n. 13. url: Biro, Yaëlle, Christine E. Brennan, and Christel H. Force. The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York: Defining Taste from Antiquities to the Avant-Garde. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023. page number: Mentioned: p. 485; reproduced: p. 489, fig. c.5 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.431/1949.431_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.431/1949.431_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.431/1949.431_full.tif