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LOT 1087
Byzantine Bronze Reliquary Cross Pendant
9TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 in. (14.38 grams, 58 mm).
Enkolpion reliquary cross with hinge and loop, suspension ring above; one face with low-relief Corpus Christi in stavrosis position, the other with robed figure in orans pose.
Provenance
Ex Den of Antiquity, Cambridge, UK.
From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.
Accompanied by a typed dealer's ticket.
Literature
Cf. Pitarakis, B., Les Croix-Reliquaires Pectorales Byzantines En Bronze, Paris, 2006, p.37, for similar.
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