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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
Ex Westminster collection, central London, UK.
Cf. Pentz, P., Verden på et fad: Sølvskatten fra Vølse in Danefæ - Skatte fra den Danske Muld, Københaven, 2010, p.181, fig.2, for a comparable example.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Found Brisly, Norfolk, UK.
Cf. example from Mill Hill, Kent, in Brugmann, B., The Role of Continental Artefact-Types in Sixth Century Kentish Chronology, in Hines, J. et al., The Pace of Change, Studies in Early Medieval Chronology, Oxford, 1999, fig.3.4, phase II; similar S-shaped fibulas from Marchélepot, France, in Menghin, W., The Merovingian Period. Europe Without Borders, Berlin, 2007, item VIII.17.17.
Ex London gallery, 1990s.
with old labels to the reverse.
Cf. Bonora, G.L. Recipienti Zoomorfi a Carattere Rituale in Bonora, G.L. & Marzatico, F., Ori dei Cavalieri delle Steppe, Milan, 2007, p.232-41.
Patrices were used to create thin sheet-silver or gold appliqués which were used to decorate wooden items, ritual items, clothing, horse-harness and other items.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Acquired on the EU art market around 2000.
From the collection of a North American gentleman.
Acquired before 1980.
Ex property of a London collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. et al., A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 58.25, with six heads to the rim.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Cf. Beck, H. et al., Fibel und Fibeltracht, Berlin, 2000, item 135(12), for type.
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