Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon
1347
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon, 1347. Italy, Siena, 14th century. Gilded wood, modeled gesso, verre églomisé, glass cabochons, and relics; overall: 66.7 x 51.3 x 25.3 cm (26 1/4 x 20 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka 1978.26
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Glass
- Formatted Medium
- gilded wood, modeled gesso, verre églomisé, glass cabochons, and relics
- Dimensions
- Overall: 66.7 x 51.3 x 25.3 cm (26 1/4 x 20 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: an inscription with a stipled background runs around the lowest edge of the upright part of the frame: obverse: HOC/OPUS : FACTUM . FUIT . SUB . ANNO . DO/MINI; reverse: [small loss] /CCC . XLVII . TEMPORE . DOMINI . MINI/CINI. [This/work : has . been . made . under . year . of . the . Lord [small loss] /300 47 . in . the . time . of the Lord . Mini/Cini.] Another inscription appears on the obverse and reverse of the base: LUCAS ME FECIT. [Luke has made me.]
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1978.26
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1978, Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, CMA, October 17, 2010 - January 17, 2011, Walters Art Museum February 13 - May 15, 2011, British Museum June 23 - October 9, 2011: "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe," cat. no. 117.<br>CMA 1979, Year in Review 1978, Bulletin. (Jan. 1979) 12, 42, cat. no.24.<br>Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007) and the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 110A Italian Gothic
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