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LOT 0294
Estimate
GBP (£) 400 - 600
EUR (€) 460 - 690
USD ($) 540 - 800
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(2 Bids, Reserve met) | Current bid: £360
ANGLO-SCANDINAVIAN VIKING GILT BRONZE URNES STIRRUP APEX MOUNT
11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (17.8 grams, 55 mm).
11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (17.8 grams, 55 mm).
Heater-shaped in profile with openwork Urnes Style interlace, holes for attachment pins to lower corners, beast-head finial to apex; remains of attachment rivets and strap to reverse.
PROVENANCE:
Found Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts, York, 1997, item 192.
FOOTNOTES:
A high-quality gilded example, for which we can find no parallel, extremely rare.
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AUCTIONS:
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