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LOT 1451
Viking Age Bronze Penannular Brooch with Dragon
CIRCA 10TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 in. (37 grams, 59 mm).
The hoop with a stylised zoomorphic design representing a bird, decorative collars and articulate tongue with openwork geometric dragon motif with head modelled in the half-round; long pin lost in antiquity. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Graham-Campbell, J., The Vikings, The British Museum, London, 1980, p.112, for a comparable brooch.
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