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LOT 1355
Viking Age Gold Elf Shot Pendant
9TH-10TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
7/8 in. (1.08 grams, 22 mm).
Featuring a blue glass cabochon set in a scalloped gold cap; free-running suspension loop.
ProvenanceAcquired 1970-2010.
Collection of a late Japanese gentleman.
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LOT 1355
Viking Age Gold Elf Shot Pendant
Estimate £250 - 350€290 - 410 (for guidance only)$340 - 470 (for guidance only)
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Pendants in the form of miniature buckets have been found in a number of pagan Anglo-Saxon and Viking contexts and are generally made of bronze or iron, with gold examples being rare; three gold examples were found with the hoard from Hoen, Norway. Bronze bucket amulets have been found at Driffield in Yorkshire, and Vimose bog in Denmark, among other places. In form they represent wooden buckets bound with bronze or iron bands which have been found in Anglo-Saxon and Viking graves and are believed to have held mead or ale and were used to replenish the cups from which warriors drank. As amulets they probably represent the ecstatic power of alcoholic drink and the role of women as the dispensers of these precious beverages.
