Anglo-Saxon Gilt-Bronze Mount with Garnets

6TH CENTURY AD

1" (12 grams, 25 mm).

A cast rectangular mount with four attachment studs to the reverse; the upper face with gilt panel of four Style I zoomorphs arranged symmetrically around a central cell divided to hold two cloison garnets.

Provenance

Found Saxmundham, Suffolk, UK, in the late 1990s.

CONDITION

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LOT 0794

Anglo-Saxon Gilt-Bronze Mount with Garnets

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,573

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