Plaque Pair: Simon and Thaddaeus and Thomas and Matthew (c. 1160): Art, History and Details

Plaque Pair: Simon and Thaddaeus and Thomas and Matthew (c. 1160) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

It is likely this pair of enamel plaques depicting the apostles Simon with Thaddeus and Thomas with Matthew once formed part of the decoration of a portable altar, a reliquary triptych, or some other kind of liturgical object.

Object facts

• Title: Plaque Pair: Simon and Thaddaeus and Thomas and Matthew
• Date: c. 1160
• Culture: Mosan, Valley of the Meuse, Romanesque period, 12th century
• Type: Enamel
• Technique: gilded copper, champlevé enamel
• Dimensions: Overall: 6.1 x 6.3 cm (2 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
• Collection: MED - Romanesque
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1952.462

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• George, Philippe. L'Oeuvre de la Meuse: Orfèvrerie mosane XIIe et XIIIe siècle. [Namur]: Institut du Patrimoine Wallonie: Trésor de Liège : Archéoforum, 2014.
• George, Philippe. Art et Patrimoine en Wallonie des Origines à 1789: Essai de Synthèse à la Lumière des Collections Américaines et Européennes. Namur: Institut du Patrimoine Wallon, 2017.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.