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LOT 1664
Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Brooch with Bust
9TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (8.2 grams, 28 mm).
With dentilled rim and profile bust with cross in imitation of a coin design. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market in the early 2000s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Abramson, T., Sceattas. An Illustrated Guide, King's Lynn, 2006, p.63 (Vanimundus Series Va type 55, silver variety VaB); Hammond, B., British Artefacts vol.2 - Middle Saxon & Viking, Witham, 2010, item 1.1.2-e.
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LOT 1664
Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Brooch with Bust
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
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Anglo-Saxon Bronze Zoomorphic Strap End
8th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Triangular in plan with low-relief beast-head finial, Trewhiddle Style reserved speckled beast; upper end absent. 3.47 grams, 28 mm
Found Yorkshire, UK. -
Late Saxon Gilt Bronze Armband
Circa 9th-11th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
With median parcel-gilt channel and two small securing holes at one end. 12 grams, 76 mm
From the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
This is probably the decorative strip or fitting from a luxury item. -
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Entwined Serpent Mount
6th-7th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
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'. 10.9 grams, 46 mm
UK collection formed 1970s-1990s. Ex property of an English gentleman.
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.
