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| Keywords: Viking - Neck Ring - Walters 571599.jpg This Viking neck ring is made from three twisted silver wires and is fastened by an unusual conical knob and loop clasp It was both jewelry and money to its owner Large neck rings and smaller arms rings were buried in Viking hoards in Ireland Scandinavia and England all important hubs of Viking sea trade This neck ring was found buried with a plain arm ring present location unknown in Fenit County Kerry Ireland in 1880 late 9th-10th century Medieval silver cm 12 11 8 1 9 accession number 57 1599 2826 Found in Fenit County Kerry Ireland 1880 Robert Day Cork date and mode of acquisition unknown Robert Day of Cork Sale Sotheby Wilkinson Hodge London May 19-22 1913 no 452 Permain dealer 1913 by purchase William Randolph Hearst by purchase William Hearst Collection Sale New York February 10 1941 lot 999 no 166 Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore February 10 1941 by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of the members of the Board of Trustees Robert Garrett B Howell Griswold Jr George C Cutler Philip B Perlman and Morgan C Marshall 1941 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 Objects of Adornment Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 place of origin Fenit Ireland United Kingdom Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Viking jewellery Viking Age Ireland Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Torcs | ||||
