171 MIDDLE BYZANTINE GILDED BRONZE PENDANT: MOTHER OF GOD enameled en cloissoné with blue, turquoise, and red on a green ground. Quadrifoil combined with a square, the portrait within a central double circle. 10th-12th Century AD. H. 1 3/8 in. (3.7 cm.) Ex A.T. collection, London, England, acquired in 1993. The detailed surfaces of the triangles, semicircles and the tape with middle burr between both internal circles are gilded 172 BYZANTINE SILVER CRUCIFORM ENKOLPION with engraved decoration showing Maria Orans on the front and ornamental decoration with a bluish green glass stone on the reverse. Ca. 12th Century AD. H. 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.); W. 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm.) Ex B.R. collection since the 1980s. Cf. L. Warmser, Die Welt von Byzanz Europas östliches Erbe, Munich, 2004, p. 198, no. 270. 173 BYZANTINE BRONZE ENKOLPION DECORATED IN RELIEF WITH THE CRUCIFIXION The crucified Christ surrounded by three medallions with busts on the frontside and Maria with the child surrounded by three busts on the backside. 10th-12th Century AD H. 3 1/2 in. (9 cm.) Ex M.P. collection, Germany, acquired in 1990s. Cf. H.C. Evans - W.D. Wixon, eds., The Glory of Byzantium, New York, 1997, p. 303f, no. 206. Tiny hole on backside. 174 BYZANTINE BRONZE ENKOLPION DECORATED IN RELIEF WITH THE CRUCIFIXION Obverse: tabula ansata with the Greek letters IS XS, surrounded by four medallions with the vignettes of Nikolaus, the mother of God, St.George, under the cross arms other inscriptions in Church Slavonic (”The cross is our consolation. The cross is our fame”). Rev: Mother of God in the center, surrounded by four medallions with the busts of Peter, Damianos, and Kosmas as well as Basil, under the cross arms other inscriptions in Church Slavonic (”Holy mother of God, help us!”) Before 1240 AD. H. 2 1/2 in. (6.5 cm.) Ex M.P. collection, Germany, acquired in 1990s.
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