Viking Scandinavian Jellinge Style Bronze Dragon Belt Plaque

10TH-11TH CENTURY AD

2 1/2" (19 grams, 61 mm).

A cast openwork mount in the form of an s-shaped beast decorated with panels of hatching interlaced with openwork tendrils, scrolled ends turning to form the frames for the attachment rivets (three present); the design including elements of the earlier Jellinge Style (e.g. hatched body panels) with the later Ringerike Style (e.g. the mesh of tendrils, lentoid eye).

Provenance

From an important American collection; acquired 1990s.

Literature

Cf. the enmeshed animal mount from Hertfordshire in Backhouse, J., Turner, D.H. and Webster, L. The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art: 966-1066, London, 1984, item 107.

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LOT 0500

Viking Scandinavian Jellinge Style Bronze Dragon Belt Plaque

Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,178

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