BYZANTINE SILVER-GILT CROSS PENDANT

拍品描述

Ca. AD 1200 - 1400. A silver gilt cross pendant with rounded arms, the front with a standing figure of Christ, haloed and robed, the transverse arms filled with trefoil motifs within a double triangular frame. A broad suspension loop rises above the upper arm. For similar see: E. C. Evans, W. D. Wixom, The Glory of Byzantium, Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, cat. 333. Size: 57mm x 40mm; Weight: 9.9g Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old Austrian collection formed in the 1990s.

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