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LOT 1765
Viking Age Bronze Pendant with Duck-Foot Pendants
8TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
5 7/8 in. (146 grams, 15 cm).
A rectangular bronze pendant formed as a pair of addorsed horse-heads in profile and openwork panel; bar with seven articulated chains each terminating in a pendant formed as the foot of a wading bird, Finno-Ugric type.
Provenance
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
Literature
Cf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, pl.LI (8), for similar.
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