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LOT 0978
Byzantine Bronze Reliquary Cross Pendant
CIRCA 12TH CENTURY A.D.
2 3/8 in. (29.7 grams, 62 mm).
Two-piece enkolpion with hinged suspension loop, to each face a low-relief Corpus Christi with facing mask above.
ProvenanceAcquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Pitarakis, B., Les Croix-Reliquaires Pectorales Byzantines en Bronze, Paris, 2006, item 146, for type.
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