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LOT 1743
Estimate
GBP (£) 250 - 350
EUR (€) 290 - 400
USD ($) 330 - 470
£125 (EUR 145; USD 167) (+bp*)
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DARK AGE GOLD FILIGREE DECORATED ELEMENT
7TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER
2 1/4 in. (5.55 grams, 57 mm).
7TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER
2 1/4 in. (5.55 grams, 57 mm).
Comprising: bronze blade fixed into a sheet-gold sleeve with applied beaded wire scrolls to obverse, impressed saltire to reverse; four radiating longitudinal bars with corrugated ornament; bronze granule cluster as a finial.
PROVENANCE:
Private English collection, formed between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
Private collection, UK.
FOOTNOTES:
The delicate nature of the piece and its decoration in the round make is likely that it is an element of jewellery or perhaps the shank of a key.
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AUCTIONS:
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