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LOT 0290
Viking Age Gold Twisted Bracelet
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER
3 1/2 in. (64.4 grams, 88 mm wide).
Comprising a tapering hoop with braided rods to the central section, plain finials coiled around the shank forming collars.
Provenance
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11882-200711.
Literature
Cf. Willemsen, A., Vikings! Raids in the Rhine/Meuse region 800-1000, Utrecht, 2004, p.137, for similar; and Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1979, lot 31, for another spirally twisted example.
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