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LOT 1025
Byzantine Gold Filigree Heart-Shaped Pendant
5TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (2.92 grams, 24 mm).
Hollow with three filigree circles to the underside each with scrolled filigree fill, pierced sidewall, three openwork filigree domes to the obverse with granules and a tubular cell to the apex of the lower one.
Provenance
Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970s-2000s.
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