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LOT 1496
Migration Period Tinned Bronze Openwork Brooch
CIRCA 7TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/8 in. (33 grams total, 10.4 cm).
Formed as a human head and D-shaped torso with arms extending to lateral stems, lozengiform torso and second inverted head; pin-lugs to the reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex an important Dutch collection; acquired on the European art market in the 1970s.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.
Literature
Cf. Menghin, W., The Merovingian Period. Europe Without Borders, Berlin, 2007, items III.20.2, 4.
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