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LOT 1182
Viking Silver Mammen Style Dragon Pendant
10TH-EARLY 11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (9.1 grams, 35 mm).
Of discoid form with central motif of a low-relief regardant beast with piriform shoulder and punced body, looped tendrils enmeshing the body. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
LiteratureSee Korshyn, V.E., Yazicheskiye Priveski Drevniye Rysi X-XIV, Vekov, Moscow, 2013, pl.71, for comparable objects.
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