Large Viking Age Bronze Brooch with Duck-Foot Pendants

Large Viking Age Bronze Brooch with Duck-Foot Pendants

8th-10th century A.D. Comprising a broad hoop with beaded base and rim, small bronze pin, bands of applied beading; above, plaque with applied scrolls and beading, granule clusters; to the lower edge an arc of loops each with a pendant chain and duck-foot dangle; Finno-Ugric type. Cf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, tables XX, and LI, for development of the type. 157 grams, 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.).

From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.