Anglo-Saxon Enamelled Bronze Hanging Bowl Mount

6TH CENTURY A.D.

1 1/4 in. (7.1 grams, 31 mm).

With raised circumferential border to the obverse; decorated with high-relief La Tène designs featuring elaborate curvilinear tendrils and triskele-style swirls enclosing an area of fine-line trumpet spiral designs on an enamelled field. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Lincolshire, UK.
From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

Literature

Cf. MacGregor, A. & Bolick, E., A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (Non-Ferrous Metals), Oxford, 1993, item 47.19, for type.

CONDITION

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LOT 0365