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LOT 0976
Byzantine Silver-Gilt Temple Ring Pair
9TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (19.5 grams total, 48-49 mm).
Hollow-formed with applied filigree collars to shank and base of horns, bulbs with horns and granule clusters; one bulb detached. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1980s.
From the collection of a London antiquarian.
See Entwistle, C. & Adams, N., Intelligible Beauty, Recent Research into Byzantine Jewellery, London, 2010, for discussion; Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, pl.LXXI(9), for type.
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Byzantine Fresco Panel of Crowned Women
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Opening Bid: £12,500
Fragment of a fresco panel depicting a group of young women wearing crowns, possibly depicting queens or wise virgins, three in the foreground with suggestion of others behind them; a vertical line to the left marking the border of the painting; two outer women's eyes turning towards a point high on the right, and the middle one lowering her eyes; wearing clothes richly decorated with precious stones and pearls, and crowns consisting of a band encrusted with gems and bordered with pearls, topped with points adorned with coloured stones in the style of Western European crowns. 5.08 kg, 40 x 40 cm
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