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LOT 2083
Tibetan Banded Agate and Gilt Prayer Bead Necklace
20TH CENTURY A.D.
30 in. (175 grams, 76 cm).
Graduated fusiform banded agate beads with gilt metal spacer beads. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, UK.
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Opening Bid: £54
Depicting Saint Zosima and Saint Sabbas in front of the Solovetsky Monastery, both nimbate and dressed in the Abbot’s garments, holding the model of the monastery offered to God, represented in the sky as a dove upon a cloud; arabesque frame; inscriptions in Old Slavonic with the names of the saints. 108 grams, 88 mm
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Post Medieval Figural Coquilla Pipe
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