Title
Preview
Culture
Russian, Orthodox
Dimensions
3 x 2 in.
Credit Line
Bequest of David P. Harris ('46), 2020
Accession Number
2020.165
Provenance
Purchased from Bowater Gallery, London, in 1969.
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
The small cross displays a conjoined crucifix on one side and is decorated with small bosses on the back. The arms of the cross are connected at the ends by strings of multi-colored glass beads decorate the elaborate suspension piece at the top of the cross.