The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Devotional Badge with Saint James Flanked by Two Kneeling Pilgrims
c. 1200–1250
Overall: 2.9 x 2.6 cm (1 1/8 x 1 in.)
Lawrence Hitchcock Fund 1985.146
Location: 110A Italian Gothic
Description
In addition to vessels, the glass kilns of Venice produced some devotional badges such as this one. These small objects may have been collected by pilgrims as mementos. This example probably recalls a journey to Santiago da Compostella in distant Spain, one of the greatest medieval pilgrimage destinations. Thought to imitate more valuable carved gems, these glass-plate medallions were made in large quantity by pressing a mold over opaque or transparent molten glass.- T. Easton, London (Christie's, London, 3 July 1985, lot 19); (Ellin Mitchell Works of Art, New York).
- Winter, Patrick M. de. “Recent Accessions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts, Part I: Incorporating Notes on the Sculptor Severo Da Ravenna.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 3 (March 1986): 74–138. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 79, fig. 13 www.jstor.org
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