Byzantine Bronze Ring with Bird

6TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.

7/8 in. (3.39 grams, 23.50 mm overall, 20.62 mm internal diameter (approximate size British U 1/2, USA 10 1/4, Europe 23.15, Japan 22)).

With stepped shoulders, D-shaped plaque, incised peacock design. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Private collection formed in the 1970s.
Ex property of an Essex, UK, businessman.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.

Literature

Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 492, for type.

CONDITION

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LOT 0847