Cleveland Museum of Art

Reliquary bag with lions

Date: late 1100s-1300s
Medium: cloth d’areste, weft-faced lozenge twill variant: silk and gold thread
Culture: Spain, probably Almeria
Department: Textiles
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

This bag was originally inside of the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects. This silk bag originally held bits of mummified flesh or tissue which was labeled as being from Saint Bartholomew.

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