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LOT 0165
Byzantine Gold Architectural Ring
6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (12.96 grams, 30.45 mm overall, 21.38 mm internal diameter (approximate size British W 1/2, USA 11 1/4, Europe 25.66, Japan 24)).
Composed of a flat-section hoop with expanded centre, openwork bezel of six gusseted legs topped with pyramid granules and dished discoid centre adorned with granule clusters; Byzantine or Merovingian.
ProvenanceAcquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. The V&A Museum, accession number M.176-1937, for similar; cf. Adams, N. ed., Intelligible Beauty, London, 2010, p.18, for a similar example.
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Byzantine Gold Architectural Ring
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Composed of a flat-section hoop with expanded centre, openwork bezel of six gusseted legs topped with pyramid granules and dished discoid centre adorned with granule clusters; Byzantine or Merovingian. 12.96 grams, 30.45 mm overall, 21.38 mm internal diameter (approximate size British W 1/2, USA 11 1/4, Europe 25.66, Japan 24)
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.
