Diptych Icon with Kwərʿätä rəʾəsu (left) and the Deposition (right)

after 1700 · Ethiopia

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Plate 1Diptych Icon with Kwərʿätä rəʾəsu (left) and the Deposition (right), Ethiopia, after 1700, wood, paint, leather, iron hinges (later addition), Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, 2004-7-3.

Franko Khoury

Catalogue entry locator Printed p. 306, cat. 187 (supplied scan PDF p. 303)

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Catalogue no. 187: Diptych Icon with Kwərʿätä rəʾəsu (left) and the Deposition (right). after 1700; wood, paint, leather, iron hinges (later addition); Ethiopia.

Date: after 1700
Object type: Icons & panel paintings
Recorded place: Ethiopia
Holding: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art
Accession: 2004-7-3
Source locator: Printed p. 306, cat. 187 (supplied scan PDF p. 303)
Source citation: Christine Sciacca, ed., Ethiopia at the Crossroads (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2023).