Reliquary bag with lions
1175–1299
- Medium
- cloth d’areste, weft-faced lozenge twill variant: silk and gold thread
- Dimensions
- Average: 8 x 36.9 cm (3 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Spain, probably Almeria
About
This bag was originally inside of the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects.