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LOT 1401
Viking Age Bronze Pendant with Opposed Horse Heads
9TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/2 in. (24 grams, 64 mm).
Retaining its suspension loop to the top edge; three pendant rosettes beneath the openwork heads. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired before 1990.
Ex property of a professional collector.
Cf. Golubeva, L.A., Zoomorfnye Ukrashenija Finno-Ugrov, Moscow, 1979, plate 17, items 1-7.
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