Viking Bronze Jellinge Style Regardant Beast Pendant

Composed of an expanded bezel with raised medial rib with zigzags above and below, each arm tapering to a slender coil. 5.03 grams, 21.35 mm overall, 17.87 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M 1/2, USA 6 1/4, Europe 13.09, Japan 12)



From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

With circumferential bands of silver inlay and gilt detailing; free-running ring with similar inlay. 40.2 grams, 15 cm



From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Cup-shaped in sheet gold with applied filigree detailing and granule clusters. 1.19 grams, 13 mm



From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Pendants in the form of miniature buckets have been found in a number of pagan Anglo-Saxon and Viking contexts and are generally made of bronze or iron, with gold examples being rare; three gold examples were found with the hoard from Hoen, Norway. Bronze bucket amulets have been found at Driffield in Yorkshire, and Vimose bog in Denmark, among other places. In form they represent wooden buckets bound with bronze or iron bands which have been found in Anglo-Saxon and Viking graves and are believed to have held mead or ale and were used to replenish the cups from which warriors drank. As amulets they probably represent the ecstatic power of alcoholic drink and the role of women as the dispensers of these precious beverages.