Word: welfenschatz
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...Yorkers who had $1 and the inclination were given opportunity last week to inspect 82 objects that made up the greatest collection of medieval art ever to come to the U. S.-one of the greatest in the world-the Welfenschatz or Guelph Treasure...
...monstrances, candelabra, etc. etc. After 300 years of this the Guelphs felt that they had collected enough. Ten years before America was discovered they made an inventory which might well serve as a catalog of the exhibition shown in New York last week. Until ten months ago the entire Welfenschatz remained in Guelph hands, property of the Dukes of Brunswick, Guelph descendants...
Messrs. Hackenbruch, Rosenbaum & Goldschmidt immediately put the Welfenschatz on public exhibition, first in Frankfort, later in Berlin. Seldom in the past 800 years have people been permitted to see it. Railways ran excursions from all over Germany, from France, Hungary, Poland. Day after day the museums were crowded with throngs of the artistic, anxious to admire the work of Romanesque and Gothic goldsmiths, of the pious, eager to venerate the skeleton arms of St. Lawrence and St. Sigismund, the skull of St. Blasius, the finger of John the Baptist and other anatomical remains...
...Modern. Of that whole period from the 4th to the 13th Century referred to by Victorian professors as the dark ages, U. S. collections have scarcely anything but a few fragments of Romanesque sculpture, an occasional porphyry column or bit of mosaic. This period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century enamel plaque bearing a pop-eyed head of Christ. Latest is a silver relic cross made in 1483. Most important artistically is a casket reliquary in the form of a Byzantine church of gold, walrus ivory and brilliant enamel which once held...
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