Currently not on view
Angel from the gable of a reliquary,
14th century
German
y1949-151
These angels once ornamented the gables of a chasse reliquary with a pyramidal lid. They are fashioned out of copper in a technique called repoussé, a French term meaning "pushed back"; a thin layer of metal is hammered from the back to produce a sculpture in relief. These figures are thought to have been made in Constance, (now Germany), a center for goldsmith work. The original reliquary survives in the collection of the cathedral of Chur, Switzerland.
Information
Title
Angel from the gable of a reliquary
Dates
14th century
Medium
Copper with gilding and repoussé
Dimensions
14 × 15.4 × 2.1 cm (5 1/2 × 6 1/16 × 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Class of 1906, for the Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1949-151
Place Made
Germany, probably Konstanz
Culture
Subject
Giuseppe Sangiorgi (1850-1928, Rome), by 1895. [1] (Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles); 1949 purchase by Princeton University Art Museum.
[1] Correspondence with Anna Barbara Mueller,Curator, Diocesan Museum, Chur
- "Recent Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 9, no. 1 (1950): 22., p. 22
- "Recent accessions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 9, no. 1 (1950).
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The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
, cat. no. 62 (illus.) - Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 59 (illus.)
