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Scandinavian Viking Jellinge Style Bronze Oval Brooch Set Scandinavian Viking Jellinge Style Bronze Oval Brooch Set Scandinavian Viking Jellinge Style Bronze Oval Brooch Set
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LOT 1712

Scandinavian Viking Jellinge Style Bronze Oval Brooch Set

9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.

3 - 7 7/8 in. (149 grams total, 7.7-20 cm).

Comprising: two elliptical bronze tortoise brooches, each domed with low-relief ornament of an interlaced panel, wide flange with bead detailing; catch, pin-hinge and pendant attachment bar to the reverse; three swags of graduated beads (restrung) - long tubular corrugated beads in pearlescent white flanking individual black seed beads, with spacer bar and wire coils to each end. [3]

Provenance

From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

See Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pls.58ff., and in particular 62-63, 67, for similar brooches; see also Graham-Campbell, J. & Kidd, D., The Vikings, London, 1980, figs.52-53, for similar brooches from Norway.

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LOT 1712

Scandinavian Viking Jellinge Style Bronze Oval Brooch Set

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170

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