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LOT 1016
Byzantine Bronze Pendant Chain Necklace
6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
22 1/2 in. (18.3 grams, 57.2 cm).
Trichinopoly cord with coiled wire finials, hook-and-eye fastening.
ProvenanceAcquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Ross, M.C., Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Volume 2: Jewelry, Enamels and Art of the Migration Period, Washington, 2005, no.7, pl.XV, pp.12-13, for similar necklace's chain.
FootnotesThe chain is a multiple 'loop-in-loop' type, a general type of necklace, especially in use in the Romano-Egyptian Jewellery of 3rd-7th century A.D. The early examples were done in Alexandria and the production lasted until the Arab conquest of 641 A.D.
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