Art Resource - ART476018

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Portable altar. Early Medieval Germany, Lower Saxony, Koblenz, around 1190-1200. The altar is made from a combination of metalwork, ivory carving and miniature painting that was highly favoured by artists of Lower Saxony in the eleventh century. The altar-stone, once thought to be porphyry, is more likely to be a variety of Purbeck marble. It is mounted in gilt copper which is engraved with the four symbols of the Evangelists and Saints Peter, Andrew, Stephen and Lawrence. Above the stone there is an ivory of the Crucifixion and below it the Virgin and Child enthroned with two bishop saints. To either side is placed a painted miniature on vellum under crystal, of Saints Godehard (right) and Bernard (left), both bishops of Hildesheim. Rock crystal, limestone, ivory, human bone, hair, gold, copper, Painted, gilded, engraved, carved. 1902,0625.1.

Location British Museum/London/Great Britain

Unique Identifier ART476018

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 2498px × 3072px

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