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LOT 0400
Viking Bronze Decorated Spoon
10TH CENTURY A.D.
5 3/8 in. (5 3/4 in.) (15.4 grams, 13.5 cm (39 grams total, 14.7 cm including stand)).
With shallow bowl and bulb to the neck, square-section handle with twisted shank, collar and knop finial; reverse of bowl with lattice motif; mounted on a custom-made stand.
Provenance
Acquired on the London art market, 1995.
Private collection, London.
Literature
Cf. Fodor, I., The Ancient Hungarians, Budapest, 1996, p. 369.
Footnotes
The lattice motif has parallels in the art of the Vars and other cultures of the Hungarian plain. Scandinavian contact with that part of Europe was maintained by trade and settlement along the Volga and other waterways. The city of Kyiv was ruled by Scandinavian Rus for some centuries.
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