IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31579 accession number: M.12-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rectangular ivory panel. A large figure of a bishop or archbishop stands under a scalloped or shell niche facing the spectator with his right hand raised. On a desk to his left, held at the top in his left hand, is an open book inscribed in Latin 'Ad te levavi animam meam’ (‘Unto thee I have raised my soul’). Above, five deacons stand beneath a similar niche. Before him, three on his right and three on his left and one facing him, stand the canons, those at the sides with their mouths open about to chant. At the top and bottom is a crenalated wall and a pair of towers with round-headed windows. A finely carved border of acanthus frames the scene. title: panel NOTES ----- type: history note value: Discovered by Frédéric Spitzer at Schaffausen; Frédéric Spitzer Collection, Paris; sold, Paris, Chevallier, 18th April 1893, Objets d'art et de haute curiosité, Antiques, du Moyen-age and de la Renaissance, Composant l'importante et precieuse Collection Spitzer, catalogue p. 10, lot 45. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank McClean creditline: Frank McClean Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31579 PEOPLE ------------------- archbishop deacons canons SUBJECTS ------------------- wall desk mass wall desk mass TECHNIQUES ---------- ivory, carved carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 950 - 1000 creation date earliest: 950 creation date latest: 1000 culture: 10th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 1.2 dimension: Depth units: in value: 1/2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 33.7 dimension: Height units: in value: 13 1/4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.4 dimension: Width units: in value: 4 1/2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Carvings in Ivory title: Dark Ages in Europe title: Treasures of Cambridge title: Ornamenten Ecclesiae Kunst und Künstler der Romanik title: Zu Gast in der Kunstkammer : eine Ausstellung anlässlich des einhundertjährigen Bestehens des Kunsthistorischen Museums, 12. Oktober bis 15. Dezember 1991. title: Bernward von Hildesheim und das Zeitalter der Ottonen title: Kunst und Kultur der Karolingerzeit. Karl der Grosse und Papst Leo III in Paderborn title: Ex-oriente. Isaac und der weisse Elefant CITATIONS -------- Catalogue des Ivoires Ivories Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean Bequest, Catalogue of the Medieval Ivories, Enamels, Jewellery, Gems, and Miscellaneous Objects bequeathed to the Museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S. Die Elfenbeinskulpturen Concelebration liturgique Elfenbein Apropos d'un ivoire qui aurait apparteu a l'abbaye de Marchiennes Elfenbeinreliefs der Ottonischen Renaissance The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey Daily Telegraph, 17th March 1959 Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Ornamenten Ecclesiae Kunst und Künstler der Romanik The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments Limitations of The Art Museum Schatzkunst: Die Goldschmiede - und Elfenbeinarbeiten aus Osterriechischen Schatzkammern des Hochmittelalters Zu Gast in der Kunstkammer : eine Ausstellung anlässlich des einhundertjährigen Bestehens des Kunsthistorischen Museums, 12. Oktober bis 15. Dezember 1991. Bernward von Hildesheim und das Zeitalter der Ottonen Carolingian Music Kunst und Kultur der Karolingerzeit. 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