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LOT 0358
Viking Age Silver-Gilt Disc Brooch with Entwined Heads
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (25.6 grams, 45 mm).
Domed brooch with gilding to the obverse, raised design of four bird-heads with billets to the neck, enmeshed beaks and other parts, pellet eyes; chamfered rim; reverse with catch, pin-lugs and loop for attachment of a chain. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
Westminster collection, central London, UK.
Literature
Cf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl 84(5), for type.
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LOT 0358
Viking Age Silver-Gilt Disc Brooch with Entwined Heads
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
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