Roundel with two symmetrical addorsed ducks. Corners are filled by paired oak leaves and acorns. Hard grayish marble of fine texture. This revetment panel may be from a pulpit or an ambo.

Cf. Berlin. K. F. M., Frühchristl.-Byz. Sammlung, Berlin, 1938, p. 64 (J.6683).

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1967), no. 40.

D. Glass, "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. V. Washington and Baltimore," Gesta, IX/1, 1970, p. 46, no. 1 and fig. 1. Copy in dossier.

C. Bromberg, "Sasanian Stucco Influence: Sorrento and East-West," Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 14 (1983), pl. VIII, fig. 8. Copy in dossier.

G. Vikan, Catalogue of the Sculpture in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, from the Ptolemaic Period to the Renaissance (Washington, DC, 1995), no. 36, p. 91, pl. 36A-B.

W. Cahn, et al., Romanesque Sculpture in American Collection II. New York and New Jersey, Middle and South Atlantic States, the Midwest and Pacific States (New York, 1999), V. The Dumbarton Oaks Collection, p. 115, no. 3.

G. Zanichelli, Medioevo e mercato antiquariale in campani fra le due guerre, in Gangemi, Francesco, Tanja Michalsky, and Bruno Toscano. 2022. Medioevo tra due mondi : San Nicolò a San Gemini e le alienazioni monumentali nella prima metà del Novecento. Roma: Campisano editore, p. 103-117.

Worcester, MA. The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross, Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece, January 26, 2023 - April 6, 2023.

Said to be from Sorrento, Italy.

Purchased from Dr. Kurt Cassirer, Rome, April 1936 (through Loewi).

Collection of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, 1936.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C., November 1940.