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Byzantine Bronze Ring with Bird Byzantine Bronze Ring with Bird Byzantine Bronze Ring with Bird
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LOT 0783

Byzantine Bronze Ring with Bird

5TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.

1 in. (4.32 grams, 25.01 mm overall, 17.84 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P 1/2, USA 7 3/4, Europe 16.86, Japan 16)).

Ribbed shoulders, raised trumpet-shaped bezel with incuse stylised peacock. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.

Literature

Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 476, for type.

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LOT 0783

Byzantine Bronze Ring with Bird

Sold for (Inc. bp): £59

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