CIRCA 10TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.

細節

A FINE MIDDLE BYZANTINE GOLD BODY CHAIN
CIRCA 10TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
Comprising sixty-one linked openwork roundels with central cross motif with double scrolling ends
46¾ in. (119 cm.) long

來源

Acquired in 1958 from Jacques Matoussian.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
Antiker Schmuck, Gold und Silber, Galerie Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich, 1982, no. 57.

Cf. C. Stiegemann (ed.), Byzanz: Das Licht aus dem Osten, Diözesanmuseum Paderborn, Paderborn and Mainz, 2001, pp. 319-320, no. IV.47.2, for a pair of earrings incorporating this cross motif with scrolling ends, dated 9th-11th Century A.D.; and D. Buckton (ed.), Byzantium, Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture, London, 1994, pp. 94-95, no. 97, for a gold openwork body chain.