The "Spitzer Cross"
c. 1190
Master of the Royal Plantagenet Workshop
Master of the Royal Plantagenet Workshop (French)
Medieval Art
The "Spitzer Cross", c. 1190. Master of the Royal Plantagenet Workshop (French). Copper: gilded, engraved, stippled; champlevé enamel; overall: 67.4 x 41.9 x 0.2 cm (26 9/16 x 16 1/2 x 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1923.1051
- Maker/Artist
- Master of the Royal Plantagenet Workshop
- Classification
- Enamel
- Formatted Medium
- copper: gilded, engraved, stippled; champlevé enamel
- Dimensions
- Overall: 67.4 x 41.9 x 0.2 cm (26 9/16 x 16 1/2 x 1/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: inscription on titulus: IHS XPS
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1923.1051
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Exhibitions
- The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Treasures of Medieval France, Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition" no. 13, 1936; p. 19, cat. no. 13.<br>New York, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, "Enamels" Septembern 18-November 29, 1959; cat. no. 8.<br>Seattle, Worlds Fair, "Masterpieces of Art," April 21-September 4, 1962, no. 8, 1962; cat. no. 8, p. 30, repr. p. 31.<br>Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Treasures from Medieval France," 1966; no. III-31, p. 105, 357-358.<br>New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Year 1200," February 14-May 10, 1970; no. 144, p. 139-140.<br>Cleveland, The Cleveland Musuem of Art, "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum," 1991, p. 104.<br>Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 106C Medieval Treasury
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