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LOT 1971
Ethiopian Folding Wooden Diptych Icon
16TH CENTURY A.D.
6 3/4 in. (77 grams, 17.2 cm wide).
With incised voided cross to the outer face, inside a painted diptych of St George on horseback overcoming a dragon, and Mary Theotokos with the infant Jesus. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland, 2009.
Ex central London gallery.
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