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Dealer

Pater Dovnik (Mechitarist)

fl. 1857

Dealer, active in 1857. Sold to Imperial Coin and Antiquities Cabinet, Vienna.

Life and work

  1. January–March 1857
    Sold 24 small limestone sculptures and a clay figure from Cyprus to the Imperial and Royal Coin and Antiquities Collection, Vienna, for 80 florins (KHM cat. 85, 88, 94, 95); the museum's first Cypriot acquisition. The source conjectures he visited Cyprus on his way back from the Holy Land.

    ViennaBernhard-Walcher et al. 1999, p. 43

Objects

  • 24 small limestone sculptures (heads, statuettes) and a clay figure; findspot unknown

    Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Antikensammlung V 1189 (cat. 85), V 1209 (cat. 95)1857Bernhard-Walcher et al. 1999

Sources

  1. 1.A. Bernhard-Walcher, G. Dembski, K. Gschwantler, V. Karageorghis (1999). Die Sammlung zyprischer Antiken im Kunsthistorischen Museum / The Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.