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LOT 1672
Visigothic Bronze Bird Brooch
6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (10 grams, 55 mm).
Comprising: headplate formed as two addorsed bird-heads on arched necks, each with a discoid eye and hooked beak beneath; vrow bow with median band and chip-carved edges; bow-sided foot with chip-carved ornament, bird-head finial with eye and hooked beak; remains of ferrous pin to reverse, catchplate. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex European collection, 1990s.
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Literature
Cf. Beck, H. et al., Fibel und Fibeltracht, Berlin, 2000, item 154 (1,2), for type.
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