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LOT 1836
Byzantine Style Reliquary Cross Pendant
20TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/8 in. (133 grams, 10.7 cm).
Hinged at the loop with low-relief orans figure to the obverse, cristogram and pellets to the reverse; after the antique. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, provincial auction.
Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.
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