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A RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT RELIQUARY CROSS
MAKER'S CYRILLIC INITIALS MP, MOSCOW, PROBABLY 1687
OF TRADITIONAL FORM, APPLIED WITH THE CRUCIFORM FIGURE OF CHRIST FLANKED BY THE MOTHER OF GOD AND SAINT JOHN WITH THE THE LORD SABAOTH ABOVE, AGAINST A CHASED SCROLLING GROUND, AND WITHIN RAISED BORDERS, THE REVERSE INSCRIBED WITH NAMES OF THE SAINTS WHOSE RELICS IT WAS CREATED FOR, SURMOUNTED WITH SUSPENSION HOOP, MARKED ON REVERSE-6 3/16IN. (15.7CM.) HIGH, CONTAINED IN FITTED CASE
(4OZ. 10DWT., 153GR.)
MAKER'S CYRILLIC INITIALS MP, MOSCOW, PROBABLY 1687
OF TRADITIONAL FORM, APPLIED WITH THE CRUCIFORM FIGURE OF CHRIST FLANKED BY THE MOTHER OF GOD AND SAINT JOHN WITH THE THE LORD SABAOTH ABOVE, AGAINST A CHASED SCROLLING GROUND, AND WITHIN RAISED BORDERS, THE REVERSE INSCRIBED WITH NAMES OF THE SAINTS WHOSE RELICS IT WAS CREATED FOR, SURMOUNTED WITH SUSPENSION HOOP, MARKED ON REVERSE-6 3/16IN. (15.7CM.) HIGH, CONTAINED IN FITTED CASE
(4OZ. 10DWT., 153GR.)