Anglo-Saxon Bronze Entwined Serpent Mount
6th-7th century A.D. With openwork design of two serpents interlaced, each with billeted body and lentoid eyes, ropework border to the shorter sides; old collector's accession numbers to the underside '91.115' and '15871'. Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, item 56(2), for type. 10.9 grams, 46 mm (1 3/4 in.).

UK collection formed 1970s-1990s. Ex property of an English gentleman. The decorative pattern of this mount is similar to what, according to S. West, is an Anglo-Saxon die found in Suffolk, where legless animal forms are represented lying head to tail, with beaded bodies within a beaded border. Also here the animals are showing interlaced jaws and headed bodies, all contained in a border. [No Reserve] [For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price]