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LOT 0351
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Stirrup Apex Mount with Odin Bound by Serpents
11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (26.6 grams, 54 mm).
An excessively rare example of Williams Class A, Type 3 showing a standing nude man with beard and long moustache, an animal-like form around the man's waist extending towards the flanking serpents on each side, the serpents' tails wrapped around the man's legs and their open jaws gape on either side of the man's head.
ProvenanceFound Sutton Fields, Sutton on the Forest, Yorkshire, UK, on 21 November 1999.
From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
Accompanied by an illustrated record sheet by Jim Halliday dated 22 November 1999, and various off-prints.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts. A Classification and catalogue, 1997, pp.36-39, figs.74-78.
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LOT 0351
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Stirrup Apex Mount with Odin Bound by Serpents
Sold for (Inc. bp): £624
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Opening Bid: £200
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Opening Bid: £600
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