Relic of St. Marcian
1040–1050
- Medium
- Plain weave green silk with an extant selvage
- Genre
- Metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century
About
This relic is in the portable altar that was commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects.