id:			127944
accession number:	1950.574
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.574
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:17.107000

Plaque: Seated Prophet from a Reliquary Shrine, c. 1170–1180. Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, Romanesque period, 12th century. Gilded copper, champlevé enamel; average: 9 x 5.7 x 0.3 cm (3 9/16 x 2 1/4 x 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.574

title:				Plaque: Seated Prophet from a Reliquary Shrine
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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
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culture:	Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, Romanesque period, 12th century
technique:	gilded copper, champlevé enamel
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Romanesque
type:		Enamel
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measurements: Average: 9 x 5.7 x 0.3 cm (3 9/16 x 2 1/4 x 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		35th Anniversary Exhibition
	opening date:   1951-06-20T04:00:00
	<i>35th Anniversary Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

	title:		When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story
	opening date:   1981-12-01T05:00:00
	<i>When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Albin Chalandon, Lyon; Fréderic Spitzer, Paris; (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York).
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 106
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n32

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 49
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n73

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 49
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n71

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 54
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n74

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein<em>. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 138-139, no. 46
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	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. Hildesheim : Bernward Medien, 2020, 250-256
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced; pp. 250-256, Abb. 127-130
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