Collector · Dealer
Thanos Gregoriades
fl. 2000–2003
Collector and dealer, active 2000–2003.
Life and work
- December 2000The Friends of the Leventis Municipal Museum visited his house to look at his collections and learned he was interested in selling some of his antiquities, above all his medieval ceramics.
- 2001–2002Constantine Leventis, in Cyprus at the time, visited Dr Gregoriades with members of the Friends for a second look at the collection.
- January 2003Agreement concluded for the Leventis Municipal Museum to purchase 180 medieval pieces, six months after Constantine Leventis's death.
Connections
2 peopleSales, gifts & bequests
- Sold to Constantine Aimiliadesprobably2000–2003
Colleagues & contacts
- Connected with Constantine Leventis2001–2003
Objects
Collection of medieval ceramics (180 pieces per the curator's preface; 'over 140' glazed pieces per the conservator's chapter)
Leventis Municipal Museum, NicosiaJanuary 2003Papanikola-Bakirtzi 2004, p. 21Papanikola-Bakirtzi 2004, p. 159
Sources
- 1.Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi (2004). Colours of Medieval Cyprus: Through the Medieval Ceramic Collection of the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia. Nicosia, The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation.