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Fragment of a Reliquary Bag

Fragment of a Reliquary Bag

1250–1299
tapestry weave fragment with tablet woven band along top edge; silk and metal thread
Overall: 12.1 x 18.4 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.37
Location: not on view
  • originally from a church in Cologne; Leopold Seligmann; Estate of H. A. Elsberg, New York.
  • Witte, Fritz. Die liturgischen Gewänder und kirchlichen Stickereien des Schnütgenmuseums Köln. Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft. 1926. tafel 45, p. 17, #5
    Hermann Ball & Paul Graupe (Berlin, Germany). Die Sammlung Dr. Leopold Seligmann, Koln. 1930. no. 209, pl LXXVI
    Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46. p. 143-146 25138043
    Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952 ; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952. Hartford, Conn: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951. p. 33
    Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952. fig. 183
    Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. p. 27, 58
    Spies, Nancy. Ecclesiastical Pomp & Aristocratic Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands. Jarrettsville, Md: Arelate Studio, 2000. p. 182, 194, 277
    Pritchard, Frances. Crafting Textiles: Tablet Weaving, Sprang, Lace and Other Techniques from the Bronze Age to the Early 17th Century. 2021. p. 1-69
  • Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985).
    Masterpieces of the Weavers' Art, Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI (October 7-November 3, 1957).
    2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (December 7, 1951-January 27, 1952); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (February 27-March 25, 1952).
    2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944).
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