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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]
Provenance
Acquired in the 1980s.
From the collection of a London antiquarian.
Literature
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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