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LOT 2024
Post Medieval Engraved Silver Cross Pendant with Monogram
LATE 19TH-20TH CENTURY A.D.
22 3/8 in. (26 grams, 56.8 cm).
Quatrefoil in plan with interstitial tags, central pelleted collar and dome; incised hatched rosette to each petal; copperplate monogram to reverse with 'FG'; with late 20th-century chain.
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Cf. for a prototype of this modern cross Rev. William Wood Seymour, The cross, in tradition, history and art, London, 1898, fig.p.251.
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LOT 2024
Post Medieval Engraved Silver Cross Pendant with Monogram
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