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LOT 1590
Saxon Gold Jewel Backing Disc
6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (1.16 grams, 20 mm).
Thin foil panel, possibly used as the backing to mount a jewel. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From an old English collection.
Acquired from Spink, York, circa 1986.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Literature
See Arrhenius, B., Merovingian Garnet Jewellery, Stockholm, 1985, chapter 3, for discussion.
Footnotes
The foil is unlikely to have been used as a backing for a garnet cloison or cabochon since it is almost flat, but it may have been intended for treatment with the waffle-pattern texture normally used to mount such jewels.
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