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LOT 0744
Byzantine Bronze Signet Ring with Niello Cross
CIRCA 14TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (5.04 grams, 22.85 mm overall, 17.65 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)).
With a D-section hoop, keeled shoulders supporting a lentoid bezel; the bezel with a niello border and a radiating cross motif. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
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LOT 0744
Byzantine Bronze Signet Ring with Niello Cross
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
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Byzantine Bronze Trade Weight Collection
Circa 8th-12th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Mixed group of barrel-shaped weights pellets and other markings. 227 grams total, 14-26 mm
Ex Simmons Gallery, London E11, UK, in the 1990s. From a North London collection. -
Byzantine Bronze Reliquary Cross Pendant
Circa 10th-12th century A.D. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £910
Articulated enkolpion with loop; low-relief robed figure to each face in orans pose with legend above 'ΟΑΓΗΟC / NΑΠ[.]ΔΗC' (Saint ...) and ΟΑΓΗΟCΓ/ΗΟΡΓΗC (Saint George). 51 grams, 97 mm
Acquired on the German art market before 2000. From an EU collection before 2020. -
Byzantine Bronze Inscribed Ring
Circa 7th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
With flat-section expanding hoop, scrolls and leaf motifs to shoulders; oval bezel with three lines of Greek inscription reciting Κ[ΥΡI]Ε ΒΟΗΘΗI ΑΗΑ (= Lord helps A...A). 4.30 grams, 21.70 mm overall, 19.70 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16)
Acquired in the 1980s-1990s. Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman.
The inscription on the ring is the typical invocatory formula Kyrie boethei N., which calls directly upon the Lord for help; this form, beside the one calling the Virgin for help as well (Theotokos boethei), is common in the inscriptions of the Eastern Roman Empire.
