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LOT 1464
Viking Age Bronze Bracelet with Rope Design
8TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
2 3/4 in. (64 grams, 69 mm wide).
Composed of a tapering penannular body with convex outer face and collared terminals. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
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Viking Age Bronze Stirrup Apex Mount with Bear's Mask
11th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Of Williams's Class B Type 4, comprising a facing bear's head mask with piriform eyes and openwork ears, ribbed forelock, lateral loops above vertical bars connected to the lower rectangular panel with angled ledge below; restored. 30 grams, 40 mm
Found UK. From an old North Country collection; formed between 1970-2000. -
Viking Age Iron Socketted Spearhead Group
10th-12th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Comprising two short Baltic Prussian spearheads with lentoid-section lanceolate blade, short neck and tapering circular socket with single hole for attachment pin; remains of wood inside one of the shafts. 425 grams total, 26-28 cm
Acquired 1971-1972. From the collection of the vendor's father. Property of a London, UK, collector.
Prussian horsemen, like the Lithuanian and Livonian, were ‘light - armed’, as the Prussian documents say, yet their equipment, of sword and spear, helmet and even shirt of mail, was sufficient to enable them to hold their ground against the Teutonic forces. -
Viking Silver Urnes Style Rattle Pendant
9th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,600
Formed from a hollow vesica-shaped silver mount which rattles when shaken, probably a horse-harness fitting; with Urnes style interlaced dragons in low relief surrounding a facing bearded mask with large staring eyes (Thor?). 67 grams, 73 mm
Formerly acquired on the German art market in the early 1980s. Previously in a European collection in the 1990s. From an important central London collection. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by searcher certificate no. 200377.
The last phase of Viking art is the Urnes style from about 1050-1150. The Urnes style has gracefully curved lines of different width - swelling, tapering - but always in a curve. The tendril clusters from the Ringerike style are abandoned. The Urnes style developed shortly before the middle of the 11th century.
