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LOT 0373
Ethiopian Bronze Processional Cross
EARLY 15TH CENTURY A.D.
11 5/8 in. (406 grams, 29.5 cm).
Openwork flat-section panel with interlaced tendril design engraved with the Virgin and Child to one face and two archangels to the other in low-relief; tapering tubular socket with circumferential ribbing, lateral angled spurs. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired in 2002 from a private collection in Lisbon, Portugal.
Ex central London gallery.
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