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LOT 1796
Scandinavian Viking Bronze Gripping Beast Pendant
CIRCA 9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (7.97 grams, 39 mm).
With an integral loop, the openwork plaque with pelletted border and four panels, internal stylised zoomorph, facing mask below the loop with pellet eyes. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Korshyn, V.E., Yazicheskiye Priveski Drevniye Rysi X-XIV Vekov, Moscow, 2013, item K-4, for type.
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LOT 1796
Scandinavian Viking Bronze Gripping Beast Pendant
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
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Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Openwork Cross Mount
Circa 9th-11th century A.D.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Formed as an equal-arm cross with tapering arms, each arm terminating in a pierced lug; the central cross with five piercings. 6.56 grams, 34 mm
Found North Yorkshire, UK. -
Viking Period Bronze Lunar Pendant
Circa 9th-11th century A.D.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Crescentic body with ribbed suspension loop and pelletted terminals. 6.58 grams, 36 mm
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Very Large Scandinavian Viking Silver Tau Cross Pendant
10th-12th century A.D.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (+bp*)
Bids: 22 | Current Bid: £3,000
Hollow-formed type with barrel-shaped suspension bar, narrow neck, trefoil plaque with two lateral piercings; applied filigree knotwork to the plaque and suspension bar, domed 'eyes' and nose at the junction with the plaque; plain reverse. 23.1 grams, 71 mm
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. Westminster collection, central London, UK. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.13299-256161.
Although the ornament is decorated with a traditional double-braid band, it no longer features animal ornamentation, but intertwined rings made of multi-row filigree wire. The shape of the Tau cross also finds parallels with the patrices of the Busdorf hoard (Schleswig-Holstein).
