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Viking Age Silver-Gilt Jar with Interlaced Design and Pseudo-Arabic Inscription Viking Age Silver-Gilt Jar with Interlaced Design and Pseudo-Arabic Inscription Viking Age Silver-Gilt Jar with Interlaced Design and Pseudo-Arabic Inscription
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LOT 0352

Viking Age Silver-Gilt Jar with Interlaced Design and Pseudo-Arabic Inscription

CIRCA 11TH CENTURY A.D.

4 1/4 in. (301 grams, 10.6 cm high).

With later gilded outer face, globular body on a low splayed foot-ring, rolled rim; repoussé ornament comprising a circumferential ring below the neck, two parallel rings to the equator above a band of looped and interlaced tendrils with leaves and ring below, hatching to the foot-ring; median band with legend in Pseudo-Arabic script.

Provenance

In a private German collection since the 1980s.
Property of a gentleman; acquired on the UK art market in 1998.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11007-181733.

Literature

See Fehérvári, G., Islamic Metalwork of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, for discussion of proto-types.

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LOT 0352

Viking Age Silver-Gilt Jar with Interlaced Design and Pseudo-Arabic Inscription

Estimate £8,000 - 10,000€9,280 - 11,600 (for guidance only)$10,800 - 13,500 (for guidance only)

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