This elegant pendant cross is representative of the finest objects for personal devotion produced for the elite of the Byzantine empire. Both faces of the exquisite miniature cross are decorated with intricate floral patterns worked in multicolored cloisonné enamel, on a single sheet of gold—a tour de force of the enameler's art

English, late 14th/15th century. Finger ring engraved gold, set with a sapphire in hexagonal collet, inscribed: JOYE SANZ FYN (joy without end) on the interior. inside diameter: 1.8cm., 7/8 in. Est. 8,000—12,000 GBP. Sold 70,850 GBP PROVENANCE: Found...

Decent Byzantine crosses replicas

CIRCA 7TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.

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Cathedral Treasury, Hildesheim (since at least 15th century); Dom-Museum Hildesheim (lent to the Art Institute of Chicago (2012–present)) Documentation: Victor Heinrich Elbern, Der Hildesheimer Domschatz (Hildesheim: Lax, 1969), no