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Lot 71

A Byzantine gold in sandwich glass tile

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Byzantine gold in sandwich glass tile
Circa 10th-12th Century A.D.
The amber glass square overlaid with sheet gold geometric motifs forming a cruciform design, overlaid with another layer of translucent glass, 8.9cm x 8.2cm

Footnotes

Provenance:
With Fortuna Fine Arts Ltd., New York, 05 December, 1998.

Literature:
For a similar tile, cf. A. Oliver, Ancient Glass in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 1980, no. 268.

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