Byzantine Silver Ring with Bust

12TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.

7/8 in. (7.45 grams, 22.59 mm overall, 18.57 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16)).

Featuring a D-section hoop with a palm frond on both shoulders, oval bezel with a piecrust edge and pelletted border, central profile bust of a robed and bearded man flanked by palm fronds.

Provenance

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Literature

Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 87 for type.

CONDITION

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