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LOT 1356
Saxon and Viking Bronze Artefact Collection
CIRCA 6TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
5/8 - 1 1/2 in. (25.4 grams total, 15-39 mm).
Comprising: a bucket pendant; tweezers; fragmentary pin with punch-decorated facetted finial; mount displaying a lion's head; together with other pendants. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.
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Large Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Mount
Circa 6th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Two adjoining pieces broadly rectangular in plan with a slight taper, two parallel rectangular recesses with guilloche in relief; remains of lugs to two edges. 17 grams total, 20-37 mm
Found Berkshire, UK. -
Anglo-Saxon Gilt-Bronze Cruciform Mount
Circa 6th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,380
With a mounting stud at each corner; parcel-gilt surface with central reserved square filled with red enamel; cruciform motif, a scaphoid cell at each corner with red enamel fill, four interstitial panels with chip-carved Style I ornament. 19.8 grams, 31 mm
Found near Lakenheath, Suffolk, UK, circa 2012. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11892-204383.
The use of enamel is unusual in early Anglo-Saxon contexts, except in parts of East Anglia where it may have been preferred as an alternative to garnet cloisonné. -
Saxon Period Bronze and Lead Artefact Collection
6th-11th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising: two lead spindle whorls, one biconvex and the other plano-convex; a bronze buckle plate with niello detailing; a fragment of a mount with low-relief knotwork ornament; a bronze strap end with inlaid silver ornament, stylised beast-head finial. 66.2 grams total, 20-46 mm
Acquired on the UK art market. The strap end from Lincolnshire, 1970s. Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
