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LOT 0362
Pre-Viking Bronze Openwork Pendant with Bound Figure and Dragons
CIRCA 6TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/4 in. (83.77 grams, 10.7 cm).
Openwork Zierscheibe with triple-band ring surrounding a facing female figure with flexed arms, annulets and arcs flanking her body, annulets to the outer rim of the enclosing ring, suspension loop above flanked by addorsed beasts. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
LiteratureCf. similar from the cemetery at Crailsheim - Ingersheim (Grave 9), now in the Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart; published in Betz, G.C. (1864) “Die Grabhügel und Reihengräber im Oberamtsbezirk Crailsheim”, Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für das Württembergische Franken, 6(3), pp.472-479.
FootnotesThese openwork discs are often found at the waist and may have formed an ornamental lid to a belt-pouch.
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LOT 0362
Pre-Viking Bronze Openwork Pendant with Bound Figure and Dragons
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
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