Title
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
Approximately 1 1/2 x 1 in.
Credit Line
Bequest of David P. Harris ('46), 2020
Accession Number
2020.120
Description
Perhaps half of a cloak clasp, the rectangular plaque is slightly concave with gently in-curving sides. It displays an incised cross within a wide frame-like border whose dot-and-wave incised design shows remnants of its original gold fill. A broken projection a one side of the piece is undoubtedly the remnant of the device to connect this plaque with another to form the clasp. There is a hole, apparently original, in the center of the opposite side. The clasp has a fine grey-green verdigris.
Provenance
Purchased from Iconostas, London, in 1997.
Collection
The Byzantine World
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