The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 2, 2023

Reliquary Bag

1200s

Spain, Mudejar, 13th century

Compound twill weave: silk

Overall: 34 x 35.9 cm (13 3/8 x 14 1/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1974.101

Location

not on view

Provenance
from church in Saint Omer, France
?–1974
(Dr. Lucien Duriez, Neuchatel, Switzerland, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1974–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1974." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (1975): 62-102. p. 102 www.jstor.org
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. 28, 58
Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).

Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985).

Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1974.101