The elegant double-sided 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. The quatrefoil and palmette patterns are so similar in style and delicacy to the Museum's Middle Byzantine temple pendant (acc. no. 1990.235ab) and pointer tip (acc. no. 1997.235) that the cross may be from the same workshop, one argued to be an imperial workshop of the capital, Constantinople. Like the Museum's double-faced pendant icon (acc. no. 1994.403) with images of Christ and the Virgin, attributed to the same workshop, the elaborate cloisonné enamel decoration of the two faces of the cross is worked on a single sheet of gold, a tour de force of the enameler's art.