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[edit]Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing the Crucifixion
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Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing the Crucifixion |
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These intricately carved ivory panels once decorated the sides of a portable altar. Three of the plaques, those depicting Christ in Majesty and his apostles, were the first major acquisition of William M. Milliken, the museum's first curator of decorative arts and later director (1930–58). They were purchased from Emile Rey, the New York partner of Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company, who had been closely associated with J. P. Morgan, Henry Walters, and other important American collectors. The fourth plaque, depicting the Crucifixion, was donated by Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company later the same year. As Milliken later recalled, the pieces Rey showed him "were immensely intriguing, monumental in scale, even if tiny in size, the Christ in the Mandorla could have been enlarged and would have graced the tympanum of a great cathedral. . . . These morse [that is, walrus] ivories overwhelmed me . . . Somehow they must come to Cleveland. How was the question. Yet they would and must." |
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| Date | 1050 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Walrus ivory | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 5.1 x 9.6 cm (2 x 3 3/4 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medieval Art |
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1922.359 |
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| Place of creation | Germany, Lower Rhine Valley, Romanesque period, 11th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company, Inc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.359 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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