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Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame

Cloisonné-enamel medallion of Saint George made in Constantinople around 1100 and originally belonging to an icon frame.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 17.190.674

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Title: Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame
Date: ca. 1100
Medium: Gold, silver, and enamel worked in cloisonné
Culture: Byzantine
Geography: Made in Constantinople
Classification: Enamels-Cloisonné
Source record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art object 17.190.674 ↗
Rights checked: 2026-09-10 · Public Domain

Geography + Transmission profile

Georgia & Caucasus

especially 11th–12th c. enamel exchange context · 1 registered source

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Historical frame

Georgia/Caucasus courtly and devotional exchange context.

Production / use

Object record: Cloisonné-enamel medallion of Saint George made in Constantinople around 1100 and originally belonging to an icon frame. Production place is taken only from explicit museum/graph evidence; current collection is a separate present-location state.

Movement / provenance

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Political / ecclesiastical

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Artistic relation

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Reception / adaptation

Current collection/reception is modern context and is not substituted for medieval geography.

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Geography is not transmission proofGeographic proximity, shared typology, or visual similarity does not establish influence, workshop movement, trade, or transmission direction.

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Places + regional groupings

3 direct

Constantinoplemade-in · source-backed Constantinopolitan Luxury Production Network← includes-object-production-evidence · source-backed Constantinople–Georgia Court Gift Hypothesis← includes-possible-gift-object · qualified-source-backed

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Icon types + scenes

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Materials + making

1 direct

Cloisonné Enameluses-technique · source-backed

History + actors

1 direct

Saint Georgedepicts · source-backed

Sacred-space evidence

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Concepts + transmission methods

1 direct

Rights & Provenance Boundary← governs · system-rule

Two-step navigation

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Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Framemade-in →Constantinople← located-in →Hagia Sophia

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Framemade-in →Constantinople← located-in →Chora Church / Monastery

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Framedepicts →Saint George← depicts →Attarouthi Treasure Chalice (Met 1986.3.1)

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frameuses-technique →Cloisonné Enamel← uses-technique →Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Framemade-in →Constantinople← associated-with →Virgin Hodegetria

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Framemade-in →Constantinople← associated-with →Virgin Eleousa

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frameuses-technique →Cloisonné Enameluses-material →Precious Metal

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frameuses-technique →Cloisonné Enameluses-material →Glass Frit

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Framemade-in →Constantinople← occurs-at →Capture of Constantinople, 1204

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Framemade-in →Constantinople← occurs-at →Byzantine Reconquest of Constantinople, 1261

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Framedepicts →Saint George← can-identify →ὁ ἅγιος / Saint Label

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Framedepicts →Saint George← associated-with →Martyr’s Cross

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame
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Where can this record lead?

6 bounded direct results · 12 bounded two-step paths · 3 navigation themes

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Cloisonné EnamelMedallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame —uses-technique→ Cloisonné Enamel · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-230.ConstantinopleMedallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame —made-in→ Constantinople · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-231.Constantinopolitan Luxury Production NetworkMedallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame ←includes-object-production-evidence— Constantinopolitan Luxury Production Network · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-668.Saint GeorgeMedallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame —depicts→ Saint George · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-229.

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Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frameuses-techniqueCloisonné Enameluses-techniqueDouble-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)
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Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frameuses-techniqueCloisonné Enameluses-materialPrecious Metal
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Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frameuses-techniqueCloisonné Enameluses-techniqueByzantine–Georgian Enamel Network
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