**Originally Listed At $500**

Northern Europe, Viking peoples, ca. 700 to 1000 CE. A bracelet made for a slender wrist of twisted bronze wires. The bronze patina on this piece is beautifully blue, representing the oxidation of copper in the bronze alloy to form azurite. The Vikings - groups of people who left Scandinavia to plunder and colonize northern Europe (and who traveled as far afield as northeastern North America and the great kingdoms of the Middle East) - had a distinctive artistic tradition, although many of the metals that they had were acquired through conquest and the bronze for this bracelet likely was melted down from other bronze objects, perhaps some acquired by looting a monastery or trading in the Mediterranean. Still wearable! Size: 3.1" W (7.9 cm)

Provenance: Ex-Private LA County collection formed over the period between 1980 and 2000.

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Patina overall; break to two strands at one end, with losses to one of the broken ones.