id:			128824
accession number:	1951.445
share license status:	CC0
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updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:20.767000

Pendant Icon with the Virgin "Dexiokratousa" and Frame with Winged Bull of Saint Luke on the back, pendant 1100s; frame mid-1300s. Byzantium (pendant); Germany, Aachen (frame), Byzantine period, 12th century (pendant); Byzantine period, 14th century (frame). Steatite, gilt silver, pearls; overall: 6.8 x 6.3 x 1.6 cm (2 11/16 x 2 1/2 x 5/8 in.); chain: 13.6 cm (5 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1951.445

title:				Pendant Icon with the Virgin "Dexiokratousa" and Frame with Winged Bull of Saint Luke on the back
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creation date:			pendant 1100s; frame mid-1300s
creation date earliest:		1100
creation date latest:		1400
current location:		105 Byzantine
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Byzantium (pendant); Germany, Aachen (frame), Byzantine period, 12th century (pendant); Byzantine period, 14th century (frame)
technique:	steatite, gilt silver, pearls
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Glyptic
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measurements: Overall: 6.8 x 6.3 x 1.6 cm (2 11/16 x 2 1/2 x 5/8 in.); Chain: 13.6 cm (5 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Gothic Art 1360-1440
	opening date:   1963-08-06T04:00:00
	<i>Gothic Art 1360-1440</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).

	title:		Charlemagne
	opening date:   1965-06-26T04:00:00
	<i>Charlemagne</i>. Hisotorical town hall, cathedral and cloister, Aachen, Germany (June 26-September 19, 1965).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Treasury of the Cathedral of Aachen; bequeathed in 1804 to the Empress Joséphine of France (1763-1814), Paris; by inheritance to her son Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, prince of Venice and duke of Leuchtenberg (1781-1824), Paris; Henri Daguerre, Paris; César de Hauke, Paris
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 40
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n64

	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. 40
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n62

	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. 42
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n62

	Winter, Patrick M. de. “The Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 1 (March 1985): 2–160.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 20, fig. 14
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159893

	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. 76-77, no. 20
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	Bagnoli, Martina. <em>Treasures of heaven: saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 114, p. 199 - 200
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	Fajt, Jiří. <em>Emperor Charles IV: 1316-2016 : Exhibition Guide : National Gallery in Prague - Waldstein Riding School, 15 May - 25 September 2016, Charles University in Prague - Karolinum, Cloister, 14 May - 31 August 2016.</em> Prague : National Gallery, 2016.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 56; Reproduced: p. 57
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	Fajt, Jiří, and Markus Hörsch, eds.<em> Kaiser Karl IV., 1316-2016: erste Bayerisch-Tschechische Landesausstellung : Ausstellungskatalog</em>. Praha: Národní Galerie v Praze, 2016.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 366-367; Reproduced: p. 366, fig. 6.4
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	Zchomelidse, Nino. "Liminal Phenomena: Framing Medieval Cult Images with Relics and Words." <em>Viator</em>. 47, no. 3 (2016): 243-296.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 264-265; Reproduced: p. 290, fig. 21
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IMAGES

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