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Culture
Korsun
Credit Line
Bequest of David P. Harris ('46), 2020
Accession Number
2020.153
Provenance
Purchased from Bowater Gallery, London, in 1968.
References
Brad Hostetler, with Ani Parnagian, "From Private to Public: The Collection of David P. Harris," in Ethiopian Objects in the Blick-Harris Study Collection: Art, Context, and the Persistence of Form, eds. Brad Hostetler, and Lynn Jones, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture 8, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 5–25. https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol8/iss1/1/
Description
This cross is rather similar to 2020.154, but with a polished red stone. The ends of the four arms having metal caps on which a pearl is mounted. The arms are connected with small chains, each with a tiny pearl in the middle. At the top of the cross is a hinged suspension piece.