Large Pre-Viking Bronze Openwork Pendant with Bound Figure and Dragons, c. 6th-10th Century A.D.

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Item No.

36.37648

Culture

Pre-Viking, c. 6th-10th Century A.D. 

Item Details.

Openwork Zierscheibe with triple-band ring surrounding a facing female figure with flexed arms, annulets and arcs flanking her body, annulets to the outer rim of the enclosing ring, suspension loop above flanked by addorsed beasts. These openwork discs were often worn at the waist and may have formed an ornamental lid to a belt-pouch.

Provenance: From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.

Literature: Cf. similar from the cemetery at Crailsheim - Ingersheim (Grave 9), now in the Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart; published in Betz, G.C. (1864) “Die Grabhügel und Reihengräber im Oberamtsbezirk Crailsheim”, Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für das Württembergische Franken, 6(3), pp.472-479.

Size

10.6 cm L - 4 3/16 inches

Material

Bronze 

Condition

Intact 

Categories

Viking

Price.

US$ 1000

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