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LOT 1743

Dark Age Gold Filigree Decorated Element

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.

CONDITION

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LOT 1743

Dark Age Gold Filigree Decorated Element

Sold for (Inc. bp): £293

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