Byzantine Gallery

Byzantine and Early Christian Antiquities

With a blossoming of scholarship and important museum exhibitions over the past two decades -- including Art of Late Rome and Byzantine at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 1994, the seminal Glory of Byzantium at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1997, and Harvard and Yale’s Byzantine Women and Their World in 2003 -- objects from these periods have enjoyed renewed popularity and intense collecting interest. And with good reason. Byzantium was a cultural crossroads. It is where the classical age converged with the Enlightenment of Western Europe. It was the bridge between eastern culture and classicism. It fostered the formative centuries of the Christian theology. And it was the cradle of modern European civilization.

A small number of Byzantine objects remain from the Carroll Wales Collection. Click here to download the full catalog and pricelist.

Masterworks

Gold Gilt on Silver Byzantine Inscribed Pendant Cross *NEW*	Bronze Weight Inlaid with Silver Bust of Christ *NEW*	Bronze Medallion with Praying Apostle
Under $2,500

Bronze Weight with Cross and Measurement *NEW*	Mary as Mother of God with St. John(?) and St. Paul(?) *NEW*	Mary at Center with Four Gospel Authors *NEW*	Complete Reliquary Cross with Christ or Saint RESERVE
Under $1,000

Fine Silver Byzantine Inscribed Cross *NEW*	Large Bronze and Iron Ladle *NEW*	Reliquary Cross Inscribed for Mary, Mother of God *NEW*	Very Fine Hinged Complete Reliquary Cross *SOLD*

"I am the Light" Greek Inscribed Reliquary Cross - Rare *NEW*	Robed Figure in Prayer; Inscribed "St George" *NEW*	Solid Cast Bronze Pendant Cross	Wearable Early Christian Bronze Pendant Crosses

Complete Reliquary Cross with Christ *NEW*	Cast Bronze Cross with Multiple Saints *NEW*	Ornately Robed Figure, Possibly Christ *NEW*	Reliquary Cross Inscribed for Mary Originally with Five Jewels *SOLD*