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Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,265
1ST CENTURY BC-1ST CENTURY AD
2 1/2" (89 grams, 67 mm).
A cast quatrefoil bridle mount with champ leve fields of red enamel; the symmetrical design comprising a central panel with parallel sides and rounded ends, flanked by D-shaped panels with central annulet reserved against the enamel field; within the central panel a reversed s-scroll, each arm terminating in a transverse s-scrolled block with reserved pellet; the curved lines with graceful swellings in the La Tene style; two integral attachment sliders to the reverse.
PROVENANCE:
Found East Anglia, UK.
LITERATURE:
Cf. the openwork bronze bridle mount plaques with La Tene decoration from Iron Age Champagne, France, published in Stead, I.M. & Rigby, V. The Morel Collection. Iron Age Antiquities from Champagne in the British Museum, figs.185-8; red enamel bronze enamel plaques in Smith, R.A. British Museum Guide to Early Iron Age Antiquities, plate VIII.
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