
Cleveland Museum of Art
Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine
- Date
- c. 1180–1190
- Medium
- gilded copper; champlevé and cloisonné enamel
- Culture
- Germany, Rhine Valley, Cologne, Romanesque period, 12th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 130955
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
These decorative enamel plaques (1953.274, 1953.638, 1957.502, and 1961.27) have been linked to some of Cologne's most important reliquary shrines, namely the shrine of the Three Kings at Cologne Cathedral and the shrines of Saints Maurinus and Albinus in the Benedictine abbey church of Saint Panteleon.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- (Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles).
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