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.jpg "Hellenistic Gold Earrings with Lapis and Mother of Pearl")
.jpg "Hellenistic Terracotta Head of a Youth")
.jpg "Neo-Assyrian Bronze Horse Trapping with Eagle-Headed God Nisroch and Winged Supernatural Figures")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,450
.jpg "Bronze Age Gold Torc-Shaped Bracelet")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,050
Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
Sold for (Inc. bp): £74
The body of the mount roughly triangular in plan with a beast head in relief, volutes to two sides; two rivet holes to one edge. 21.6 grams, 49 mm
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Cup-shaped in sheet gold with applied filigree detailing and granule clusters. 1.19 grams, 13 mm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
See Meaney, A., Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones, Oxford, BAR British Series 96, 1981, p.166-168, for discussion of the type.
Pendants in the form of miniature buckets have been found in a number of pagan Anglo-Saxon and Viking contexts and are generally made of bronze or iron, with gold examples being rare; three gold examples were found with the hoard from Hoen, Norway. Bronze bucket amulets have been found at Driffield in Yorkshire, and Vimose bog in Denmark, among other places. In form they represent wooden buckets bound with bronze or iron bands which have been found in Anglo-Saxon and Viking graves and are believed to have held mead or ale and were used to replenish the cups from which warriors drank. As amulets they probably represent the ecstatic power of alcoholic drink and the role of women as the dispensers of these precious beverages.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
See Meaney, A., Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones, Oxford, BAR British Series 96, 1981, p.166-168, for discussion of the type.
Pendants in the form of miniature buckets have been found in a number of pagan Anglo-Saxon and Viking contexts and are generally made of bronze or iron, with gold examples being rare; three gold examples were found with the hoard from Hoen, Norway. Bronze bucket amulets have been found at Driffield in Yorkshire, and Vimose bog in Denmark, among other places. In form they represent wooden buckets bound with bronze or iron bands which have been found in Anglo-Saxon and Viking graves and are believed to have held mead or ale and were used to replenish the cups from which warriors drank. As amulets they probably represent the ecstatic power of alcoholic drink and the role of women as the dispensers of these precious beverages.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Each composed of an annular hoop suspending a stylised axe head with palmette style heads; two rivets to reverse of each. 6.28 grams total, 31-32 mm
Acquired 1970s.
From the private collection of a Northern Ireland gentleman.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Acquired 1970s.
From the private collection of a Northern Ireland gentleman.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Composed of openwork geometric plaques each with lateral scrolls, a beaded bifurcated median column, curled tendrils and a loop at the lower end to support a separate dangle. 30.7 grams total, 51-52 mm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Cf. Lehtosalo-Hilander, P-L., Luistari II The Artefacts, Helsinki, 1982, fig.3; Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.99(22), for type.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Cf. Lehtosalo-Hilander, P-L., Luistari II The Artefacts, Helsinki, 1982, fig.3; Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.99(22), for type.
Comprising a late Roman piriform strap reinforcer; an openwork zoomorphic mount; a rectangular mount with bird head and chased ornament below. 15.1 grams total, 32-40 mm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
With projecting centre and shaped arms pierced twice, displaying a central cruciform design and zoomorphs to the arms; remains of catchplate to reverse. 20.9 grams, 70 mm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Cf. Williams, G. Et al., Vikings: life and Legend, The British Museum, 2014, p.41, for similar.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Cf. Williams, G. Et al., Vikings: life and Legend, The British Museum, 2014, p.41, for similar.
Comprising: a domed mount with a pounced fantastical sea creature in low relief, the head modelled in raised relief; equal-arm brooch with central flower head flanked by scrolled crosses, vertical ribs between, remains of pin lug and catchplate to reverse; mount with trefoil finial and possible zoomorphic scheme. 42.6 grams, 25-44 mm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Group comprising: bronze coins from the Roman Empire period (2nd-4th century A.D.); each pierced once or twice for suspension as jewellery pendants in the Anglo-Saxon period. 34.8 grams total, 15-26 mm
Found Berkshire, UK.
Found Berkshire, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Formed of tightly coiled round-section rods with tapering finials. 18.9 grams total, 21-22 mm
Ex old English collection.
London art market, 1980s.
Ex old English collection.
London art market, 1980s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Of semi-circular form with geometric design; occluded suspension loop. 56 grams, 11 cm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
With projecting square-headed and decorated terminals, free-running pin also decorated on the head, upper face of the body gently carinated. 6.9 grams, 51 mm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Comprising six round-section tiers, the terminals tapering to a point. 21.09 grams, 25.19 mm overall, 18.36 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
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1021 - 1032 of 2453 LOTS
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