LOT 0528 Anglo-Saxon Chip-Carved Entwined Beast Mo…
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Later 7th-8th century AD. A flat gilt-bronze trapezoidal mount section with two attachment holes; chip-carved decoration including a running guilloche to the border enclosing a panel of Insular Style ornament, a beast with slender body and spiral hip, rear leg placed in the angle of the panel, the surface pounced and with narrow borders and transverse collar, all enmeshed in a dense field of interlaced knotwork reserved from the field. Cf. the Strickland Mount in Webster, L. & Backhouse, J., The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991, item 107(a), for similar dense knotwork, and the Gandersheim Casket (ibid., item 138).6.5 grams, 34mm (1 1/4"). Property of a Cambridgeshire collector; found in the early 1990s. The decorative scheme of the piece indicates a metalwork who was familiar with the highly detailed decoration of items such as the Strickland Mount or the Gandersheim Casket. The pounced body in a mesh of interlaced tendrils finds parallels on the heads of three linked pins from Fiskerton, Lincolnshire (Webster and Backhouse, item 184"). The artist's ability to lay out such dense and accurate designs on so small a working surface (35 x 30mm) indicates the skill of a master craftsman. [No Reserve]
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