Currently not on view
Triptych icon wing with two church fathers,
14th century
Late Byzantine
y1952-93
Information
Title
Triptych icon wing with two church fathers
Dates
14th century
Medium
Blue steatite
Dimensions
5.6 x 3.4 x 0.6 cm (2 3/16 x 1 5/16 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Caroline G. Mather Fund
Object Number
y1952-93
Place Made
Turkey, Constantinople
Period
Purchased in 1952 from Mrs. Margret Burg, London, who had purchased it in Istanbul.
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 12, no. 1 (1953): p. 38-39., p. 39
- Ioli Kalavrezou-Maxeiner, Byzantine icons in steatite, (Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1985). , p. 163-164; cat. no. 68; pl. 41
- Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair, Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., no. 171; p. 145
