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LOT 1340
Viking Age Bronze Implement Pendant
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
3 5/8 in. (10.9 grams, 93 mm).
With tear-drop plaque, pierced lug and scoop finial, low-relief geometric ornament. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, pl.CVIII (1), for similar item on a chatelaine chain.
Footnotes
In the Finno-Ugrian and Eastern Viking societies the status that an individual might achieve through personal qualities, social position and wealth was enhanced by valuable clothing, finely worked jewellery made of precious metal (like chatelaine chains for women) and, for the men, weapons and horse furnishing of exceptional quality. Families and individuals visually expressed the elements of other societies and cultures that they thought were desirable through the deliberate use of foreign objects.
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