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| Keywords: Rhenish - One of a Pair of Columns from a Shrine - Walters 44598 - Profile.jpg This piece is one of two small columns or colonnettes detached from the sides of a church-shaped reliquary shrine One column Walters 44 597 has checkered trellis pattern of enamel filled with tiny crosses and is topped by a gilt capital ornamented with small cast birds The other column Walters 44 598 has alternating diagonal bands filled with cross ornament set within quatrefoils and a capital cast with an acanthus-leaf motif late Other date century 12 Medieval champlevé enamel on copper with gilding cm 23 7 4 4 4 2 accession number 44 598 19139 Germeau Paris Joseph Brummer Paris and New York by purchase Sale Parke-Bernet New York April 23 1949 no 718 Walters Art Museum 1949 by purchase Museum purchase 1949 The Year 1200 The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 1970 place of origin Rhineland Germany Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Rhine-Meuse champlevé Rhenish paintings Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
