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LOT 1718

Anglo-Saxon Bronze Entwined Serpent Mount

6TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.

1 3/4 in. (10.9 grams, 46 mm).

With openwork design of two serpents interlaced, each with billeted body and lentoid eyes, ropework border to the shorter sides; old collector's accession numbers to the underside '91.115' and '15871'.

Provenance

UK collection formed 1970s-1990s.
Ex property of an English gentleman.

Literature

Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, item 56(2), for type.

Footnotes

The decorative pattern of this mount is similar to what, according to S. West, is an Anglo-Saxon die found in Suffolk, where legless animal forms are represented lying head to tail, with beaded bodies within a beaded border. Also here the animals are showing interlaced jaws and headed bodies, all contained in a border.

CONDITION

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LOT 1718

Anglo-Saxon Bronze Entwined Serpent Mount

Sold for (Inc. bp): £338

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