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LOT 1293
Byzantine Bronze Cross Pendant with Corpus Christi
CIRCA 10TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (3.89 mm, 37mm).
A bifacial pendant with a nimbate figure in orans pose on one side and the other with Corpus Christi. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market from the 1990s.
From the private collection of a Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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