Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine

Date
c. 1170
Medium
gilded copper; champlevé and cloisonné enamel
Culture
Germany, Rhine Valley, Cologne, Romanesque period, 12th century
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

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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