Bidspirit auction | VIKING SILVER ROPEWORK MEDALLION WITH

VIKING SILVER ROPEWORK MEDALLION WITH CROSS MOTIFS - Ca. AD 700 - 900. A silver medallion with the obverse decorated with applied ropework arranged as four roundels, each centred by a cross and small circles, with foliate motifs in the intervening spaces, all within a ropework border, and a rolled suspension loop above. For similar see: A. Reynolds, L. Webster, Early Medieval Art and Archaeology in the Northern World, Figs. 3-7. Size: 35mm x 30mm; Weight: 4.6g Provenance: Private London collection; formerly in Austrian private collection 1980s-early 1990s The XRF analyses performed demonstrate that the compositional profile of the metal is consistent with, and technically compatible with, documented metallic compositions of objects from the attributed historical period, thereby providing substantial material support for the object’s authenticity.