A Byzantine bronze cross and a Byzantine bronze steelyard collar with chains and hooks Circa 5th-6th Century A.D. cross 23.5cm high excluding the hooks; steelyard collar 37cm high (2) Footnotes: Provenance: Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 30 April 1996, lot 97. Property from a Distinguished Family Collection, acquired from the above sale. Such crosses with hooks as the above lot may have been used as part of a multiple lamp holder or for suspending censers, cf. D. Buckton (ed.), Byzantium: Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture, London, 1994, no.117, p.108. For another example of a steelyard weight collar cf. Byzanz. Das licht aus dem Osten Exhibition catalogue, Diocesan Museum Paderborn, 2001, p.248 no. III.25. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Estimate £600-£800
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£300
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