Viking Silver-Gilt Pendant with Enmeshed Beasts

8TH-10TH CENTURY AD

1 1/2" (12 grams, 39mm).

A cast pendant with integral slotted suspension loop, pair of addorsed S-shaped hippocampi with billetted bodies, roundels to the hips, coiled tails, avian profile heads; Baltic workmanship.

Provenance

Property of a gentleman; acquired in the 1990s.

CONDITION

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LOT 0420

Viking Silver-Gilt Pendant with Enmeshed Beasts

Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,776

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