Viking Age Bronze Borre-Style Tortoise Brooch

9TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.

3 in. (63 grams, 77 mm).

Composed of a domed elliptical body with flange, four Borre-style faces with pellet eyes to the centre of a panel of body parts and hatching with two more faces to the narrow ends. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Literature

Cf. Petersen, J., Vikingetidens Smykker, Stavanger, 1928, p.55, fig.48, 49 (Petersen types P48, P49).

CONDITION

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