Large Viking Age Silver Pendant with Beast Facing Back

CIRCA 9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.

2 in. (7.57 grams, 49 mm high).

With complex beast left, facing back to the right, gripping a tendril, within a double rope border with filigree annulets in the field; suspension loop to the apex, decorated with filigree pellets within annulets. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
Westminster collection, central London, UK.

Literature

See Korshyn, V.E., Yazicheskiye Priveski Drevniye Rysi X-XIV, Vekov, Moscow, 2013, for comparable objects.

CONDITION

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LOT 0344