397b: Carved and Gilt Screens in the Church of the Panagia Portaritissa

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/2/2/71/3
Level Sub-item
Donor/Creator Wace, Mr Alan John Bayard
Scope and Content The original description in the catalogue reads: "Carved and gilt screens in the churches ... (b) of the Panagia Portaritissa in Astypalaia. These richly-carved screens are common in Greek lands, especially in the islands and in the north, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: these two examples belong to the latter."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Studies of Modern Greek Life"
Related records [1936/2/2/71], 397: Greek islands; A.J.B. Wace
[BSA SPHS/1/1043.2861], Astypalaea: the screen in the church of Panagia Portaritissa, 1906