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LOT 1720
Viking Bronze Urnes Style Sword Scabbard Mount
11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (7.4 grams, 47 mm).
Ellipsoid in plan with elegantly formed Urnes Style interlaced design, hatched surface texture. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
LiteratureCf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts, York, 1997, item 192, for similar treatment of a panel in Urnes Style knotwork.
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