A Byzantine Mosaic Panel, circa 5th Century A.D.

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Description

A Byzantine Mosaic Panel
75 1/2 by 40 1/2 in. 191.7 by 102.9 cm

depicting a partridge facing right next to a flower and a tall pear tree laden with fruits, the tesserae in shades of salmon pink, green, blue, gray, and orange yellow on a white ground, the tree trunk finely shaded.

Provenance

acquired in Germany in the early 1980s

Catalogue Note

For a similar pear tree on the mosaic floor of a church in Halawe in Syria, now in the National Museum in Damascus, cf. Balty, Mosaïques de Syrie, no. 58, p. 127.