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LOT 1764
Viking Decorated Silver Bracelet
9TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/2 in. (26 grams, 64 mm).
Comprising a flat-section silver strip with reserved interlace band on a textured field, reserved knot motif, beast-head finials. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market in the 1990s.
Ex property of a London, UK, gentleman.
See Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987.
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