Reliquary Statuette of the Virgin and Child (c. 1330): Art, History and Details
Reliquary Statuette of the Virgin and Child at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1330, painted lindenwood. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Reliquary Statuette of the Virgin and Child (c. 1330) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
A small rectangular cavity in the back of this sculpture reveals that it was originally made to serve as a reliquary (a container for relics). In her left hand the Virgin holds a pear, a symbol of the peace and love of Christ.
Object facts
- Title: Reliquary Statuette of the Virgin and Child
- Date: c. 1330
- Culture: Austria, Salzburg
- Type: Sculpture
- Technique: painted lindenwood
- Dimensions: Overall: 40.7 cm (16 in.)
- Collection: MED - Gothic
- Department: Medieval Art
- Accession number: 1973.143
Collection credit
The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken
Further reading listed by the museum
- “The Year in Review for 1973.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31–78.
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.
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