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LOT 0360
Viking Bronze Boar Brooch
10TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 in. (98 grams, 57 mm).
Decorative upper surface attached to a plain back-plate with spring-lugs and catchplate intact; the upper face divided by a heavy cast median rib with geometric ornament in the outer panels, arranged symmetrically along the rib with a similar transverse band; the corners of the wider end reinforced with vertical posts ending in heavy lobed ‘ears’; the upper-end panel with a continuation of the median rib, traces of ornamental interlace; the lower-end panel plain; hollow-cast. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a North Yorkshire, UK, private collection.
Acquired from Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Macclesfield, UK.
Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. et al., A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 3.18; Nerman Die Wikingerzeit Gotlands II Tafel11 4abc, Tafel12 2-4abc; British Museum, reference number 1921,1101.114.
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