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LOT 1364

Pre-Viking Gold Filigree Aroma Bucket Pendant

4TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.

1/2 in. (1.19 grams, 13 mm).

Cup-shaped in sheet gold with applied filigree detailing and granule clusters. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Literature

See Meaney, A., Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones, Oxford, BAR British Series 96, 1981, p.166-168, for discussion of the type.

Footnotes

Pendants in the form of miniature buckets have been found in a number of pagan Anglo-Saxon and Viking contexts and are generally made of bronze or iron, with gold examples being rare; three gold examples were found with the hoard from Hoen, Norway. Bronze bucket amulets have been found at Driffield in Yorkshire, and Vimose bog in Denmark, among other places. In form they represent wooden buckets bound with bronze or iron bands which have been found in Anglo-Saxon and Viking graves and are believed to have held mead or ale and were used to replenish the cups from which warriors drank. As amulets they probably represent the ecstatic power of alcoholic drink and the role of women as the dispensers of these precious beverages.

CONDITION

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LOT 1364

Pre-Viking Gold Filigree Aroma Bucket Pendant

Sold for (Inc. bp): £416

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