Keywords: Byzantine - Saint Thomas - Walters 4820863.jpg This tile was one in a series with portraits of the twelve apostles and a Deesis Christ flanked by the Virgin and Saint John the Baptist in the middle Images of the Baptist 48 2086 26 Paul inv 48 2086 20 Peter 48 2086 27 Andrew 48 2086 24 Bartholomew 48 2086 29 Matthew 48 2086 25 Luke 48 2086 21 and John the Evangelist 48 2086 28 also survive from it as well as fragments of three further unidentifiable busts 48 2086 8; 48 2086 22-23 century 10 Medieval ceramic with glaze cm 16 7 16 5 accession number 48 2086 3 6327 Nikos Avgheris Istanbul ca 1950 by purchase Robert E Hecht Ruxton Maryland 1956 by purchase Walters Art Museum 1956 by purchase Partial museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund 1956 and partial gift of Mr Robert E Hecht Jr 1957 place of origin Constantinople present-day Istanbul Turkey Walters Art Museum license 2D Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Icons in ceramic Byzantine art Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |