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Altar Cross with Stand
1140-1150
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
From the 11th century onward, altar crosses like this one often featured elaborate bases. The most impressive decoration of this cross is its stand: a lavish array of intertwining scrolls emerges from three pawlike legs, while birds perch amid the scrolls and dragon heads sprout from others.
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Details
- Title: Altar Cross with Stand
- Date Created: 1140-1150
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 43.4 x 22.5 x 8 cm (17 1/16 x 8 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: Private collection, Strasbourg; Paul Cassirer, Berlin; (Adolf Loewi, Los Angeles).
- Type: Metalwork
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.320
- Medium: bronze: cast, gilded, engraved, and chased
- Department: Medieval Art
- Culture: Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?, Romanesque period, 12th century
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: MED - Romanesque
- Accession Number: 1944.320
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