Viking Scabbard Chape 8th-10th century AD A bronze lunate-shaped copper-alloy facing mount with hollow underside; each arm formed as a grotesque male head with elliptical eyes and a band across the nose and ovoid mouth, from which issues a bilinear strap, developing into a bird with long neck curled around the leg and head tucked beneath a ribbed tear-drop wing. 29.28 grams, 38.49mm (1 1/2"). Very fine condition. Provenance From an old English collection; acquired on the UK art market. Literature Cf. Wallace, P.F. & O Floinn, R. Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland. Irish Antiquities, Dublin, 2002, p.254 and Webster, L. & Backhouse, J. The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991.
Viking Scabbard Chape 8th-10th century AD A bronze lunate-shaped copper-alloy facing mount with hollow underside; each arm formed as a grotesque male head with elliptical eyes and a band across the nose and ovoid mouth, from which issues a bilinear strap, developing into a bird with long neck curled around the leg and head tucked beneath a ribbed tear-drop wing. 29.28 grams, 38.49mm (1 1/2"). Very fine condition. Provenance From an old English collection; acquired on the UK art market. Literature Cf. Wallace, P.F. & O Floinn, R. Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland. Irish Antiquities, Dublin, 2002, p.254 and Webster, L. & Backhouse, J. The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991.
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