id: 130645 accession number: 1953.362 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.362 updated: 2025-02-09 01:54:40.362000 Wooden Casket: Scenes from the Life of Christ, c. 1050. Anglo-Saxon, England, West Midlands?, Romanesque period, 11th century. Boxwood, copper-alloy, glass ; overall: 9 x 7.8 x 15.7 cm (3 9/16 x 3 1/16 x 6 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.362 title: Wooden Casket: Scenes from the Life of Christ title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1050 creation date earliest: 1045 creation date latest: 1055 current location: 106C Medieval Treasury creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Anglo-Saxon, England, West Midlands?, Romanesque period, 11th century technique: boxwood, copper-alloy, glass department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Romanesque type: Furniture and woodwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 9 x 7.8 x 15.7 cm (3 9/16 x 3 1/16 x 6 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066 opening date: 1984-11-07T05:00:00 The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066. The British Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (November 7, 1984-March 10, 1985). 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). title: Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe opening date: 2010-10-17T00:00:00 Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 17, 2010-January 17, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Philip Nelson, London [base was bought by Nelson in Cheshire in 1921; the lid was discovered at Uttoxeter, Staffordshire in early 19th century; Convent of the Sacred Heart, Hammersmith before 1937 when it passed into the Nelson collection. Reunited casket loaned to the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1937-1953]; (Dr. Jacob Hirsch, New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Rice, David Talbot. English Art, 871-1100. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952. page number: Mentioned: P. 169; reproduced: pl. 38b 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. 91 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n30 Griffith, Beatrice Fox. Treasure Under Glass, Examples of the Arts and Crafts from the British Isles From the Prehistoric Millennia to the Sixteenth Century A.D. In Museums, Libraries, and Collections Open to the Public in the United States of America. Harrisburg, Pa: Stackpole Co, 1963. page number: Reproduced: P. 19, pl. XVII url: Bober, Harry. “Medieval Art at Cleveland.” Apollo: The International Magazine of Art & Antiques 78 (December 1963): 447–56. page number: Reproduced: P. 447, pl. 17 url: 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. 45 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n69 Swarzenski, Hanns. Monuments of Romanesque Art: The Art of Church Treasures in North-Western Europe. London: Faber, 1967. page number: Mentioned: P. 49; reproduced: pl. 66, fig. 151 url: 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. 45 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n67 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. 50 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n70 Wilson, David M. Anglo-Saxon Art: From the Seventh Century to the Norman Conquest. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1984. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 193, figs. 243-246 url: Backhouse, Janet, D. H. Turner, Leslie Webster, and Marion Archibald. The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art, 966-1066. London: Published by British Museum Publications Limited for the Trustees of the British Museum and the British Library Board, 1984. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 125-126, no. 129 url: Wixom, William D. "In quinto scrinio de Cupro, A Copper Reliquary Chest Attributed to Canterbury: Style, Iconography, and Patronage." In The Cloisters: Studies in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary. Elizabeth C. Parker, and Mary B. Shepard, 194-227. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992. page number: Mentioned: P. 195; reproduced: P. 200, fig. 4 url: Rushton, Pauline. “A Liverpool Collector: Dr. Philip Nelson (1872-1953).” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 153, no. 467 (January 2001): 41–48. page number: Reproduced: P. 43, fig. 6 url: Klein, Holger A., Stephen N. Fliegel and Virginia Brilliant. 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. 132-133, cat. no. 43 url: Webster, Leslie. Anglo-Saxon Art: A New History. London: British Museum Press, 2012. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 204-205, fig. 173 url: Marc Antoine du Ry with Donald White, "A Silver-gilt Shrine," Medieval Art in Focus VII (2021). page number: pp. 100, 110, 132, 156, 208 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.362/1953.362_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.362/1953.362_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.362/1953.362_full.tif