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LOT 0383

Viking Silver-Gilt Beast-Head Finial

9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.

1 5/8 in. (12.6 grams, 42 mm).

Drinking horn terminal formed as a tubular socket with flange rim, narrow canine head with raised ovoid eyes, open mouth with swept struts, muzzle with flange. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the John Hewitt collection (1919-1994).
Ex Sam Fogg, London, UK, dealer in the art of the Middle Ages.
Property of a Canadian collector living in Ontario; acquired 2018.

Supplied with a printed copy of Fornvännen article by Peter Pentz.

Literature

Cf. similar find from Oppelstrup, Denmark in Pentz, P., The same but Different. A note on a recently found zoomorphic drinking horn terminal, in Fornvännen, 2020/2, p.83.

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LOT 0383

Viking Silver-Gilt Beast-Head Finial

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,950

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