Byzantine Decorative Arts

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/3/9
Level Sub-series
Scope and Content This section was made up of borrowed items, and therefore only one item, later donated to the BSA, is currently in the BSA's collection. These items had the numbers 501-628; the numbers 501-569 were duplicated, having also been used to denote drawings of Byzantine Churches, seen in the previous sub-series. There are some surviving photographs of items 520, 530, 583, and 590 exhibited in this section, see related records.
Related records [BSA SPHS/1/6819.C6828], Silver filigree cross with enamel decoration, framing a carved wooden cross, on each face of which are six of the twelve 'Feasts' of the Church. Possibly Cypriot, 15th or 16th century., 1936
[BSA SPHS/1/6834.C6843], Byzantine Silver-gilt Repoussé Plaque of the Virgin, 10th-11th centuries, 1936
[BSA SPHS/1/6837.C6846], Byzantine icon of the Baptism, Cretan school, 16th century. Shown in the gallery space of the 1936 Exhibition, Burlington House, London., 1936
[BSA SPHS/1/6836.C6845], Byzantine 17th/18th century icon of SS. Basil, Chrysostom and Gregory with a small image of the kneeling donor in the lower left, 1936