VIKING PAIR OF SPOONS AND PENANNULAR BROOCH WITH BLUE CABOCHONS

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Ca. AD 700 - 1000. A pair of spoons, from left to right: a spoon with an oval bowl and a twisted handle terminating in a leaf-shaped finial; and a spoon with a broad circular bowl punched with dots, and a flat handle with incised diagonal strokes; together with a silver penannular brooch formed with a round-section shank and a long pin wrapped around it, the terminals set with a pair of blue cabochons in high circular collets with a wire border, vertical ribs, and clusters of pellets at the junction. For similar see: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection, Object Number: A113611; The British Museum, Museum number 1852,0329.111. Size: 65-190mm x 40-70mm; Weight: 100g Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.

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