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LOT 1331

Medieval Gold Beast-Headed Bracelet Terminal

12TH-13TH CENTURY A.D.

2 1/8 in. (7.07 grams, 53 mm).

A sheet-gold zoomorphic bracelet terminal in the form of a stylised beast head, composed of a rectangular-section body and crocodilian jaws; filigree volutes and granules decorating the body and forming the eyes and a scale-like ridge along the snout, and forming the outline of the creature's mouth; pierced through the mouth. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired in the 1980s.
Private collection of a Hemel Hempstead, UK, gentleman.
Property of a Harrow, UK gentleman.

CONDITION

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LOT 1331

Medieval Gold Beast-Headed Bracelet Terminal

Sold for (Inc. bp): £286

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