Hammered and hallmarked gold plate, cloisonné enamels, caboc - Lot 242

Lot 242
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Hammered and hallmarked gold plate, cloisonné enamels, caboc - Lot 242
Hammered and hallmarked gold plate, cloisonné enamels, cabochons of precious stones and coloured glass, white, blue, green and red enamels. Plate centered on a Latin cross decorated with small interlocking Greek crosses with small circles around the edge; applique frame decorated with four-petal flowers and sixteen cabochons of various stones. sixteen cabochons of different stones (sapphires, emeralds, rubies, amethysts), some cut, fixed by thin nailed bands. Constantinople, 10th-12th century H. 8.9 cm - L 6.8 cm (small restorations and missing enamel, one stone replaced by blue glass) a blue glass) This type of interlocking cross ornament is quite common in Byzantine enamels from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Counts A.A Bobrinskij and A.V Zvenigorodskij had in their collection a small plate similar to the one kept in the Kremlin Museum (Inv.N°MP3663), which was originally part of a border surrounding an icon. There are plaques with identical ornamentation in the Limburg Staurothek belonging to the period 964/965 and 985 or in the Esztergom Staurothek (ca. 1150-1190). This 24-carat gold plate would certainly have belonged to a bookbinder or a reliquary. Book consulted : E.Ju. Gagarina, Byzantine Antiquities, Works of Art from the Fourth to Fifteenth Centuries in the Collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, Moscow, 2013, p.179.
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