Bowl Fragment with the Descent from the Cross

2nd half 13th century (Medieval)

10 cm 10.4 cm 4 cm

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This shard fits with two others, now at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo (inv. 13724) and at the Benaki Museum in Athens (inv. 823). As part of a composition of the Descent from the Cross, it shows Joseph of Arimathea ready to receive Christ's dead body taken down for burial...

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Moritz Sobernheim, Berlin, prior to 1914, by purchase; Clara Schiff Sobernheim, Berlin, Germany and Port Chester, New York, 1933, by inheritance; Rudolf Sobernheim, Washington D.C., 1952, by gift; Barbara R. Sobernheim, Washington D.C., 1994, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1996, by gift.
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