Reliquary bag with lions
late 1100s-1300s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Reliquary bag with lions, late 1100s-1300s. Spain, probably Almeria. Cloth d’areste, weft-faced lozenge twill variant: silk and gold thread; average: 8 x 36.9 cm (3 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.462.c This silk bag originally held bits of mummified flesh or tissue which was labeled as being from Saint Bartholomew.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- cloth d’areste, weft-faced lozenge twill variant: silk and gold thread
- Dimensions
- Average: 8 x 36.9 cm (3 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1931.462.c
- Credit Line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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