Year of Object(s) Creation: 1600 A.D. (approximate)
Estimated Value ($USD): 200,000 (approximate)
Object Type(s): Painting, Religious artifact
Object Material(s): paint, tempera, wood
Provenience Nation: Cyprus
Provenience Location: Antiphonitis Church, Cyprus
Year Removed from Findspot: 1976

Provenance
Start Year: 1976
End Year: 1995
Circumstance of Acquisition: Purchased by Willem Otto Arie Lans from art dealer Edouard Dergazarian
Nation: Netherlands
Location:
Start Year: 1995
End Year: present
Circumstance of Acquisition: Confiscated from Lans by Dutch Government and given to the Church of Cyprus
Nation: Cyprus
Location:

4 Cypriot Icons From Antiphonitis Church


Description:
Four icons depicting apostles John, Mark, Paul, and Peter, from Antiphonitis Church, Cyprus

Case Status: Object(s) relinquished
Year Claim Initiated: 1976
Year Claim Resolved: 1995
Means of Resolution: Sua sponte donation

Complainant Name: Church of Cyprus
Complainant Nation: Cyprus
Complainant Nation Economy: In Transition
Complainant Type: Public: Institution

Respondent Name: Willem Otto Arie Lans
Respondent Nation: Netherlands
Respondent Nation Economy: Developed
Respondent Type: Private: Individual

Reference Links:

Files:
https://research.cgu.edu/cultural-property-disputes-resource/wp-content/uploads/sites/63/2021/01/87.pdf
Title: 10th meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Hague Convention UNESCO, Monday 16 December 2013
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Editor's Notes:
- Attributed to the painter Lutzios Eikonografos - Autocefale Grieks-Orthodoxe Kerk te Cyprus v. W.O.A. Lans was the first ever case to invoke the Protocol to the Hague Convention 1954 Michael Jansen, War and Cultural Heritage: Cyprus after the 1974 Turkish Invasion (Univ. Minnesota, 2005).