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LOT 0790
Byzantine Bronze Ring with Griffin
12TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (3.54 grams, 21.36 mm overall, 16.49 mm internal diameter (approximate size British L, USA 5 3/4, Europe 11.24, Japan 10)).
Discoid bezel with incuse rampant griffin. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 583.
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