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LOT 2122
Viking Age Silver Pendant with Rock Crystal Sphere
CIRCA 9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (7.39 grams, 46 mm).
Wire hoop with ends twisted round the shank, suspension ring and cage of twisted wire containing a rock crystal bead. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
Westminster collection, central London, UK
Cf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, plate 100 for similar.
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LOT 2122
Viking Age Silver Pendant with Rock Crystal Sphere
Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Stirrup Mount with Face
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Opening Bid: £60
Williams's Class A Type 9, formed as a stylised face with almond-shaped eyes, wide nose and mustache; attachment loop to the top; accompanied by a handwritten note 'Viking Stirrup Mount, 1000-1100 AD'. 18.7 grams, 38 mm
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Viking Plaited Bronze Wire Ring
Circa 9th-11th century A.D.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Featuring a triangular-section braided shank and coiled hoop. 2.89 grams, 26.38 mm overall, 19.83 x 17.76 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q 1/2, USA 8 1/4, Europe 18.12, Japan 17)
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection. -
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Bridle Cheek Piece with Knotwork and Beasts
11th century A.D.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Of Williams Type 2, formed as a flat triangular plate broken across the hole which originally held the iron bit in place, from one corner the elongated terminal extends into a rounded swelling and ends in a rounded knob, possibly suggesting an animal snout; one edge of the plate with a central projecting lobe, used to form the nose of a stylised face with engraved detail resembling the paired spirals flowing up to form arching eyebrows and and eye features; above right of the face running up the top of the fitting an engraved piece of knotwork creating a four-lobed design of a band running off from the the knotwork towards the break. 36.7 grams, 63 mm
Found whilst searching with a metal detector in Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, UK. Property of a Kent gentleman, a specialist medieval collector. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.KENT-FD1DDE.
