Dumbarton Oaks - Plate with Monogram and Ivy Leaves

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Plate with Monogram and Ivy Leaves

Early Byzantine
ca. 610 (early 7th century)
2.38 x 13.49 x 13.49 cm (15/16 x 5 5/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
silver and niello
BZ.1960.60

Not on view

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Additional Images

Obverse

Bibliography

O. M. Dalton, "Byzantine Silversmiths' Work from Cyprus," Byzantinische Zeitschrift, XV (1906), 615-617.

M. Rosenberg, Merkzeichen, IV, 708-709.

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Bulletin, X.8 (1952), 4.

E. C. Dodd, Byzantine Silver (Stamps, Dumbarton Oaks Studies 7), (Washington, D.C., 1961), 141, no. 39.

M. Ross, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Vol. I, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Glyptics, Painting (Washington, DC, 1962), 22-23, no. 17, Pl. XX.

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, D.C., 1967), no. 76.

M. M. Mango, Silver from Early Byzantium (Baltimore, 1986), 277, no. 105.

A. Kirin, ed., Sacred Art, Secular Context: Objects of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., Accompanied by American Paintings from the Collection of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, exh. cat. Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA, 2005), 93-94, cat. no. 37 and fig. p. 86.

Robert Merrillees, "The Modern History of the First Lambousa Treasure of Byzantine Silverware from Cyprus," The Antiquaries Journal 89 (2009), 1-15, esp. 7.

A. Welch, “Markings on Silver: The Study of a Byzantine Silver Dish.” Muse: Annual of the Museum of Art and Archaeology 50 (2016): 45-58, fig. 7a.

Exhibition History

California Palace of the Legion of Honor (Bulletin, X, 8, 1952, p. 4).

Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, "Silver Treasures of Early Byzantium," Apr. 18, 1986 - Aug. 17, 1986.

Athens, GA, Georgia Museum of Art, “Sacred Art, Secular Context: Objects of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., Accompanied by American Paintings from the Collection of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss,” May 15–November 6, 2005.

Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks, Rich in Blessings: Wealth and the Late Antique Household, November 17, 2023 - June 9, 2024.

Acquisition History

Collection of Mrs. (Helene Irwin Crocker) Paul I. Fagan (1887-1966), San Francisco, California;

Gift of Mrs. (Helene Irwin Crocker) Paul I. Fagan, April 1960;

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, DC

Object Last Modified: 8/15/2024