Viking Age Bronze Trefoil Strap Junction

With split attachment plate held by two rivets and featuring ring-and-dot detailing; D-section segmented lower panel with geometric ornament. 7.38 grams, 31 mm



Found Lincolnshire, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

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. 146 grams, 15 cm



From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.

A spectacular Sogdian sheet-silver bucket with drum-shaped body, narrow discoid repoussé base, bands of repoussé foliage to the body beneath a raised collar and fluted neck and rim; handle held by two securing hoops formed as miniature rams. 1.2 kg, 26.5 cm wide



From an old private collection. with Oxus Fine Arts Pte. Ltd, Singapore. Acquired by the current owner in London, 2012. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12288-220840.

Dr. Grigoriev, in his studies on Sogdian silver artworks, has traced specific Sogdian features of metalwork prototypes on the basis of the ceramic replicas. Some of these features were distinguished on gold and silver vessels which possess many other characteristics bringing them together. In our bucket, the style and the decoration of the flowers resemble those of the bucket with deer from Shirokovskoe (Perm, see Marshak, 1971, T,35), while the bands of repoussé foliage to the body beneath the raised collar and fluted neck and rim recall the decoration of the dish with deer from Rep’evka, in Samara Province (Darkevich, 1976, n.12).