6th-7th century AD. A large polycandelon with openwork disc of twelve bars, six with crosses at centre and alternating circular and penannular shapes to the outer rim, hung by three chains with cruciform and 'S' links from a floral suspender in turn with hanging hook above. See Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no.2002.483.7, for similar example; cf. Weitzmann, K., Age of Spirituality, Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century, exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977. 1.1 kg, 27cm width (10 1/2"). Property of a New York gentleman, on the London market; previously with Bonhams, London, New Bond Street, 1 May 2013, lot 254; formerly in a European private collection, acquired in the 1980s; accompanied by copies of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages.