Anglo-Saxon Florid Animal-Masks with Birds Cruciform Brooch

6TH-7TH CENTURY AD

5 1/4" (56 grams, 13.5cm).

A gilt-bronze bow brooch of florid cruciform type comprising: a square headplate with lateral bars, three D-shaped plaques to the sides each a Style I face formed from opposed profile bird-heads, scroll eyes and peltoid lower portion, billetted collar to the rear; a broad bow with facetted ends, central discoid panel; footplate with lateral bird-head lappets; terminal with Style I mask above addorsed bird-heads and a peltoid plaque; to the reverse, pin-lugs with ferrous accretion, hooked catchplate.

Provenance

Found East Anglia, UK, before 1960.

Literature

Cf. West, S. A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, fig.152 item 6.

CONDITION

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LOT 0464

Anglo-Saxon Florid Animal-Masks with Birds Cruciform Brooch

Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,591

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