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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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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. -
Anglo-Saxon Large Bronze Cruciform Bow Brooch
Late 5th-early 6th century A.D.Estimate: £350 - 450 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £140
Of Martin's Type 3.2.4 (Holywell Row) featuring a trapezoidal headplate with lateral trapezoidal panels, domed knop above; deep bow with facetted ends, T-shaped footplate with lateral lappets, horse-head finial with discoid nostrils; complete ferrous pin and catchplate to the reverse, hollowed reverse to the horse-head. 71 grams, 13.5 cm
Acquired circa 1995. From an East Anglian private collection.
The Holywell Row type in Martin's analysis extends from the northern shore of the Thames Estuary as far as Yorkshire, but with a cluster in the Cambridge area. The edges of the headplate show the faintest traces of punched detailing, if this is not the result of the original clean-up when the brooch was taken from its mould; similar marks can be discerned on the footplate below the junction with the bow. The finial shows little zoomorphic detailing but the nostrils are characteristic of the type. The presence of the pin is remarkable. -
Saxon Bronze Strap End Collection
Circa 8th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Comprising mainly Thomas's Class A Type 1, some with beast-head finial. 45 grams total, 30-49 mm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
