Large Byzantine Bronze Reliquary Cross Pendant with Christ and Saints

CIRCA 10TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.

3 7/8 in. (56.8 grams, 98 mm).

Bifacial enkolpion with roundel to end of each arm, hinged polyhedral suspension loop above; obverse with low-relief central Corpus Christi and bust of a saint in each roundel; reverse with central seated figure of Mary surrounded by text and with a nimbate bust in each roundel. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.

Literature

Cf. Pitarakis, B., Les Croix-Reliquaires Pectorales Byzantines En Bronze, Paris, 2006, p.37, for type.

CONDITION

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