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LOT 1126
Large Byzantine Bronze Reliquary Cross Pendant Plate
9TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
3 in. (35.5 grams, 76 mm).
Enkolpion panel with hinge knuckles, low-relief nimbate figure to obverse with 'ΘΕΟΤΟΚΕ' legend above, ring-and-dot and guilloche ornament to the robe. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Den of Antiquity, Cambridge, UK.
From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.
Accompanied by a typed dealer's ticket.
Literature
Cf. Pitarakis, B., Les Croix-Reliquaires Pectorales Byzantines en Bronze, Paris, 2006, items 274, 276, for type.
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