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LOT 845

Medieval - Irish Drinking Horn Bird Mount

(8.71 grams, 52.69 mm.).

10th-12th century AD. An aviform mount comprising a sharply beaked head extending to a curved D-section neck with herringbone patterning along the sides, its back and tail decorated with a pattern of inlaid yellow enamel lozenge panels, between its vestigial legs a fine transverse pin allowing it to be attached to a drinking horn.

Provenance

Found Shropshire.

Literature

Cf. Wallace & Ó Floinn, Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, 2002 fig.6:6.

CONDITION

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LOT 845

Medieval - Irish Drinking Horn Bird Mount

Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,105

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