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Byzantine Polished Black Stone Dish with Bust of an Emperor Byzantine Polished Black Stone Dish with Bust of an Emperor Byzantine Polished Black Stone Dish with Bust of an Emperor Byzantine Polished Black Stone Dish with Bust of an Emperor Byzantine Polished Black Stone Dish with Bust of an Emperor Byzantine Polished Black Stone Dish with Bust of an Emperor
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LOT 0806

Byzantine Polished Black Stone Dish with Bust of an Emperor

5TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER

2 3/8 in. (49.7 grams, 59 mm).

Featuring a pedestal foot; the bust carved to one face, holding a globus cruciger in one hand, crosses and annulets in left and right fields, a horizontal register of concentric roundels to the opposite face. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a Paris gallery, French collection pre 1978.

CONDITION
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LOT 0806

Byzantine Polished Black Stone Dish with Bust of an Emperor

Sold for (Inc. bp): £260

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