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Byzantine Bronze Ring with Warrior Saint Byzantine Bronze Ring with Warrior Saint Byzantine Bronze Ring with Warrior Saint
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LOT 1050

Byzantine Bronze Ring with Warrior Saint

11TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.

3/4 in. (3.78 grams, 21.23 mm overall, 17.16 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M 1/2, USA 6 1/4, Europe 13.09, Japan 12)).

Slender hoop with discoid bezel showing a stylised warrior holding a long spear. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired on the UK and EU art market before 2000.
From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Literature

Cf. Đurović, I., Средњовековни накит из збирки Народног музеја Крагујевац (Medieval jewelry from the collections of the National Museum Kragujevac, in Serbian), Крагујевац, 2012, fig.58, for the type.

Footnotes

These banded rings, made of bronze sheet with a flattened ellipsoidal head, could be decorated with geometric or animal ornaments executed by shallow carving. In this circumstance, the bezel is decorated with a stylised image, most probably of Archangel Michael, who was asked for protection and blessing.

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LOT 1050

Byzantine Bronze Ring with Warrior Saint

Sold for (Inc. bp): £46

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