A GREEK PARCEL-GILT SILVER BIBLE-BINDING
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, 18TH CENTURY
Oblong, the front chased with the Crucifixion of Christ, the Evangelists at each corner, with six selected feasts, with Greek inscriptions above or beneath, the back chased with a scene of the Transfiguration of Christ, the spine applied with bands each cast with a winged putto, one lacking, and with quatrefoils, marked on spine with later Austro-Hungarian tax mark
16 1/2 in. (41.7 cm.) high
A GREEK PARCEL-GILT SILVER BIBLE-BINDING
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, 18TH CENTURY
Oblong, the front chased with the Crucifixion of Christ, the Evangelists at each corner, with six selected feasts, with Greek inscriptions above or beneath, the back chased with a scene of the Transfiguration of Christ, the spine applied with bands each cast with a winged putto, one lacking, and with quatrefoils, marked on spine with later Austro-Hungarian tax mark
16 1/2 in. (41.7 cm.) high
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