Morse with Virgin Mary and Saints Peter and Paul & Two Escutcheons

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Morse with Virgin Mary and Saints Peter and Paul & Two Escutcheons

Place of Originpossibly Paris, France

Dateabout 1350

Dimensions7 × 6 3/4 × 3/4 in. (17.8 × 17.1 × 1.9 cm)
Appliqué B: 1 1/8 × 7/8 × 1/8 in. (2.9 × 2.2 × 0.3 cm)
Appliqué C: 1 1/8 × 7/8 × 1/8 in. (2.9 × 2.2 × 0.3 cm)

MediumChamplevé enamel on gilded copper with silver

ClassificationMetalwork

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1950.248A-C

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Collections

Decorative Arts

Published References

de Hefner-Alteneck, J. H., Le Musée d'Objets d'Art de Son Altesse Royale Le Prince Charles Antoine de Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Munich, 1867, repr. in color, pl. 55.

Borenius, T., "Enamels from the Sigmaringen Collection," The International Studio, XCI, December 1928, no. 379, p. 33.

Riefstahl, Rudolf M., "Medieval Art," Toledo Museum News, New Series, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 1964, p. 14, repr. (also published as Medieval Art).

Riefstahl, Rudolf M., "What is Conservation," Toledo Museum News, New Series, vol. 8, no. 3, Autumn 1965, pp. 51-67, repr. p. 59 (also published as handbook).

The Toledo Museum of Art, A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, 1966, repr.

"Medieval Art at Toledo: A Selection," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, December 1967, p. 441, repr. fig. 10.

The Toledo Museum of Art, A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, 1966, repr.

Guip, David, "Sacred Relics, Ritual Objects: Instructional Resources from The Toledo Museum of Art," Art Education, vol. 46, no. 6, Nov. 1993, p. 33, repr. p. 34 (col.).

Putney, Richard H., Medieval Art, Medieval People: The Cloister Gallery of the Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 2002, p. 48, repr. (col.) fig. 40.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 241, repr. (col.).

Exhibition History

Frankfurt am Main, Staedel Museum, 1928, no. 309.

Label TextA clasp worn at the neck to fasten a priestly garment, this morse displays the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus, flanked by St. Peter and St. Paul. The praying figure in robes kneeling at Mary’s feet probably represents the clergyman who had the morse made, identified below as Iacobus Garand Presbiter. The heraldic shields, including the two separate escutcheons, possibly relate to his noble ancestry and that of a later owner.