Lot 103
  • 103

A Byzantine Mosaic Panel with Seated Dog, circa 5th/6th Century A.D.

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • A Byzantine Mosaic Panel with Seated Dog
  • 27 9/16 by 25 3/16 in. 70 by 64 cm.
depicting in multicolored tesserae a collared dog  seated facing left amid vegetation.

Provenance

Christie's, London, June 10th, 1969, no. 163, illus.
formerly on loan to the Brooklyn Museum, inv. no. L69.39.3

Condition

Tesserae reset into heavy modern cement slab and bound with modern grout, which in some instance was used to fill small areas of missing tesserae, surface appears to have been repolished in modern times.
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