Reliquary bag with lions

late 1100s-1300s

Maker Unknown

Textiles

Reliquary bag with lions, late 1100s-1300s. Spain, probably Almeria. Cloth d’areste, weft-faced lozenge twill variant: silk and gold thread; average: 8 x 36.9 cm (3 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.462.c This silk bag originally held bits of mummified flesh or tissue which was labeled as being from Saint Bartholomew.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Maker Unknown
Classification: Textile
Formatted Medium: cloth d’areste, weft-faced lozenge twill variant: silk and gold thread
Medium: cloth, areste, weft-faced, lozenge, twill, variant, silk, gold, thread
Dimensions: Average: 8 x 36.9 cm (3 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.)
Departments: Textiles
Accession Number: 1931.462.c
Credit Line: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
Exhibitions: Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe,
Rights Statement: CC0