A BYZANTINE GOLD AND ENAMEL DISK

CIRCA 10TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.

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A BYZANTINE GOLD AND ENAMEL DISK
CIRCA 10TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
Originally an element in a necklace, the round box setting containing a cloissoné enamel six-point rosette of red, green and white enamel on a blue ground, with a row of granulated triangles along its lower edge, with two opposing attachment loops of coiled wire
11/16 in. (1.8 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 14 June 1996, lot 57.

Lot Essay

For a related example in Jerusalem see no. 116 in Hasson, Early Islamic Jewellery, and for an example in Oxford see pp. 49ff in Evans, "Antiquarian researches in Illyricum," Archeologia 48. Four similar disks were re-used on a portable altar of Saint Foy, from Conques, circa 1100 A.D., no. 1 in O'Neil, ed., Enamels of Limoges, 1100-1350.

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