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LOT 0197
Byzantine Gold Ring with Niello Portrait of Empress Eirene and Her Son Constantine VI
CIRCA 8TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (4.81 grams, 22.31 mm overall, 18.87 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R, USA 8 1/2, Europe 18 3/4, Japan 18)).
Flat-section hoop supporting a disc bezel with two niello-inlaid portrait busts: the male with cruciform upstand to his crown fitted with chain pendants, cloak (chlamys) pinned at right shoulder, and ornamented brooch with pendant of pearls, globe with cross beside his shoulder, in his right hand; the empress with similar crown, braided hair, slanted lines of pellets to her embroidered robe.
ProvenanceAcquired from Derek Content, 8 May 1976.
Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent.
Accompanied by a copy of the original handwritten invoice from Derek Content, 8 May 1976.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13407- 259829.
Cf. Wamser, L., Die Welt von Byzanz - Europas Östliches Erbe, München, 2004, item 649, for type; Henig, M., A Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British sites, Oxford, 1978, no.790, for a ring with similar style of niello; Parkhurst, C., ‘Melvin Gutman Collection of Ancient and Medieval Gold', in Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, vol. XVIII, 1961, for similar.
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LOT 0197
Byzantine Gold Ring with Niello Portrait of Empress Eirene and Her Son Constantine VI
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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Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent.
