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LOT 0404
Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Chip-Carved Mount with Face
6TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (20.8 grams, 39 mm).
Parcel-gilt bell-shaped mount with pierced lug above arched bracket framing two perching birds with long beaks and folded wings, field of granulated lines, curved claws to the lower edge; the whole design forming a stylised human mask.
Provenance
Found UK.
From the private collection of the late Alexander Cotton, Hampshire, UK.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. & Bolick, E., A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (Non-Ferrous Metals), Oxford, 1993, items 25.6-8.
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