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LOT 0851
Byzantine Decorated Leather Case
10TH-12TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER
17 3/4 in. (130 grams, 45 cm).
Rectangular leather case with turned and seamed end (vertical seam absent); reverse with tooled panels of foliage and tendrils in rectangular frames, obverse with large tooled rosette in a tondo on a hatched field with geometric frame. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from the London trade.
Ex central London gallery.
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