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Plaque from a Portable Altar: Zacharias at the Altar
c. 1100-1125
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This delicate ivory plaque may once have decorated a side of a portable altar. It likely depicts the angel of the Lord appearing to the priest Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, at the altar in the temple. Like the identity of the object in Zacharias’s hands, the identity of the couple accompanying the priest remains unclear.
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- Title: Plaque from a Portable Altar: Zacharias at the Altar
- Date Created: c. 1100-1125
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 8.6 x 7.7 cm (3 3/8 x 3 1/16 in.)
- Provenance: Count Pourtales, St. Petersburg; (Durlacher Brothers, New York).
- Type: Ivory
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.212
- Medium: ivory
- Department: Medieval Art
- Culture: Germany, Rhine Valley, Cologne?, Romanesque period, 12th century
- Credit Line: Gift of John L. Severance in memory of J. H. Wade
- Collection: MED - Romanesque
- Accession Number: 1926.212
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