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Portable Altar


Romanesque
seconf half of the 11th century
10.7 cm x 15.5 cm x 23.8 cm (4 3/16 in. x 6 1/8 in. x 9 3/8 in.)
Walrus Ivory on wood
BZ.1937.16

On view


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Bibliography
H. Tietze, Die Denkmale des politischen Bezirkes Melk, Österreichische Kunsttopographie 3 (Wien, 1909), 320.

A. Goldschmidt, Die Elfenbeinskulpturen aus der Zeit der karolingischen und sächsischen Kaiser VIII.-XI. Jahrhundert, Denkmäler der deutschen Kunst: 2. Sektion, Plastik ; 4. Abteilung (Berlin, 1914) vol. 2, 105, pl. 35.

K. A. Wirth, "Erde," in Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte 5, ed. O. Schmitt (Stuttgart, 1937), col. 997-1104, esp. col. 1076.

Arts of the Middle Ages; a Loan Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, February 17 to March 24, 1940, (Boston, 1940), 42, no. 124, pl. XIV.

"Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection," Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum 10.4 (1945): 108-23, fig. p. 114.

The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Harvard University, Handbook of the Collection, (Washington, D.C., 1946), 78-79, no. 161, fig. p. 88.

"Reawakening at Dumbarton Oaks: The Golden Glories of the Byzantine and Early Christian Worlds," Art News 45.10.1 (1946): 15-19; 57-59, esp. 58, fig. XII.

The Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University, (Washington, D.C., 1955), 109, no. 243, fig. p. 124.

Handbook of the Byzantine Collection, (Washington, D.C., 1967), 84, no. 292.

K. Weitzmann, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, vol. 3, Ivories and Steatites, (Washington, D.C., 1972), 89-93, no. 34, pl. LXII-LXVI.

H. Fillitz and M. Pippal, Schatzkunst: die Goldschmiede- und Elfenbeinarbeiten aus österreichischen Schatzkammern des Hochmittelalters, (Salzburg, 1987), no. 9.

C. Stiegemann and M. Wemhoff, Canossa 1077: Erschütterung der Welt : Geschichte, Kunst und Kultur am Aufgang der Romanik, exhibition catalogue, Museum in der Kaiserpfalz; Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn; and Städtische Galerie am Abdinghof, July 21-Nov. 5, 2006, (München, 2006), 387-8, no. 481.


Exhibition History
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Arts of the Middle Ages," Feb. 17 - Mar. 24, 1940.

Cambridge, Fogg Museum, "A Selection of Ivories, Bronzes, Metalwork and Other Objects from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection," Nov. 15 - Dec. 31, 1945.


Acquisition History
Treasury of the Cloister (or Abbey) of Melk-on-Danube, Austria.

Purchased from Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, By Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, April 1937.

Collection of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, D.C.

Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, November 1940.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.