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LOT 0215
Byzantine Gold Ring with Monogram
CIRCA 7TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (11.75 grams, 24.96 mm overall, 20.75 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T 1/2, USA 9 3/4, Europe 21.89, Japan 21)).
D-section hoop with flat shoulders, oblate stepped bezel, incuse monogram comprising 'A, O, N, Υ' and other characters and a cross potent in the field.
ProvenancePrivate collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13414-259784.
Cf. Baldini Lippolis, I., L'Oreficeria nell'Impero di Costantinopoli tra IV e VII secolo (the Jewellery in the Empire of Constantinople between IV and VII century, in Italian), Bari, 1999, pp.208ff., for the type, especially nos.4-5,14-15.
FootnotesThe ring belongs to the category of Eastern Roman rings featuring a convex band and a hammered-in bezel, which were particularly widespread between the 4th and 7th centuries AD. The ring seems to bear the monogram K[ω]NCTANTINOY + (of Constantine).
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LOT 0215
Byzantine Gold Ring with Monogram
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000€2,320 - 3,480 (for guidance only)$2,700 - 4,050 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£1,000 (EUR 1,160; USD 1,350) ‡+BP*
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Byzantine Gold Ring with Square Bezel and Inscription
Circa 6th-8th century A.D.Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £750
Flat rectangular bezel flanked at each shoulder by a cluster of granules, border of punched triangles enclosing Greek legend 'ΘEOΔΟPA K C'. 4.92 grams, 21.72 mm overall, 18.23 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)
Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent.
The ring belongs to an unconventional category of 6th-century A.D. Eastern Roman rings, featuring a rectangular bezel and the junction of the bezel and hoop with six gold pellets at each shoulder. The inscription could be interpreted as 'ΘEOΔΟPAK[I]C' (of Theodorakis). -
Byzantine Terracotta Sgrafitto Dish with a Falcon Among Leafy Branches
Perhaps Corinth, mid-12th century A.D.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Broad and squat with carination to the exterior face, and a broad foot ring; cream glaze with sgraffito design of a delineated falcon in profile, surrounded by leafy branches and holding one of the branches in its hooked beak. 1.04 kg, 26.3 cm
Private collection (L.v.L.), Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany, acquired between 1960s-1980s.
In the Byzantine Empire, and even more so in the Islamic world, hunting falcons were a symbol of wealth and high status. The spectrum of designs in which they are to be found on 12th-century Byzantine pottery, in particular, offers a forceful testament both to the cultural reach of such vessels during the period and to the skill of the potters who were able to produce large numbers of beautifully worked slipware vessels destined for marine trade. The present example is likely to have been discovered in the late 1960's, when it is thought a 12th-century shipwreck laden with slipware vessels was excavated off the coast of Izmir. -
Veneto-Byzantine Gold Ring with 'God Help the Wearer' Inscription
Circa 14th-15th century A.D.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,000
With niello-filled tendril scrolls to the shoulders, ellipsoid bezel with lateral knops, niello-filled border and legend 'ΚΕΒΟΗΘΙ/ΤΟΝΦOΡO/HTATω' (may God help the wearer). 7.51 grams, 22.33 mm overall, 19.36 x 17.21 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16)
Collection of Maritine, Countess of Behague, from the estate of the Marquis de Ganay. Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, no.202. Objects with Semitic Inscriptions, Jewish, Early Christian and Byzantine Antiquities, 20 November 1989, no.331. Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent. Accompanied by a copy of the relevant 1989 catalogue pages.
