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LOT 1905
Viking Bronze Openwork Sword Chape
9TH-EARLY 11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 in. (4 3/8 in.) (23.8 grams, 57 mm (42.8 grams total, 11 cm including stand)).
With heater-shaped body and lobed trefoil to the apex on each face, openwork Borre Style design to the body with three-band mesh, facing 'bear-head' mask with lobes to the upper edge, pellet eyes and moustache; supplied with a custom-made stand.
Provenance
Acquired on the London art market, 1990s.
Private collection, London.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Literature
Cf. Paulsen, P., Schwertortbänder der Wikingerzeit, Stuttgart, 1953, figs.48-55.
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