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LOT 2111
Migration Period Bronze Ring Group with Glass Cabochons
CIRCA 6TH-9TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 -1 in. (9.11 grams total, 21-23 mm).
Comprising two formed as a flat-section hoop with expanding shoulders and bezel holding blue and pink glass cabochons; two with flat-section hoop, double-bezel holding pink and blue glass cabochons. [4]
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 2111
Migration Period Bronze Ring Group with Glass Cabochons
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£50 (EUR 58; USD 68) +BP*
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Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £10
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The size and shape of this ornamental cross are evocative of metalwork that would have decorated clothing. However, the fact that the cross does not have a loop on the back suggests that it may not necessarily have been worn, while the ring in the centre and the grooves along that ring suggest that a rope of some sort may have been threaded through. One possibility is that this was a harness mount. -
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Visigothic Bronze Lyre-Shaped Buckle Plate
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Opening Bid: £300
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UK collection, acquired 1970s-1990s. -
Gothic Silver-Gilt Fragmentary Brooch Pair
Late 5th-6th century A.D.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Each comprising a thin D-shaped headplate with spring to the reverse and gilt animal-head finials to the lugs; deep carinated C-section bow, with beaded wire collar to each end and gilt radiating petals; coffin-shaped foot with catchplate to the reverse; partly damaged and incomplete. 210 grams total, 2.1-16 cm
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. Westminster collection, central London, UK.
The gilt decorations at each end of the bow are an unusual feature. Brooches of this time were found in the East Germanic territory of Kertch in the Crimea (formerly Ukraine).
