10th-11th century AD. A silver flat-section discoid openwork pendant with ribbed border, enmeshed beast within, integral suspension loop with face mask. Cf. Korshun, V.E., Yazcheskye Priveski Drevnei Rusi X-XIV Vekov, volume I, Moscow, 2013, items K-27-34. 4.1 grams, 29mm (1"). From an important central London collection; previously in a European collection in the 1990s; formerly acquired on the German art market in the early 1980s. [No Reserve]