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LOT 0230
Early Byzantine Gold and Garnet Gemstone Ring with Bird
CONSTANTINOPLE, CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (3.52 grams, 22.74 mm overall, 17.38 mm internal diameter (approximate size British K 1/2, USA 5 1/2, Europe 10.58, Japan 10)).
Hollow-formed with inset cloison, incuse profile bird motif.
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired on the German art market in 1993; thence by descent.
LiteratureCf. Spier, J., Late Antique and Early Christian Gems, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2007, for the 'The Garnet Workshop' discussion; cf. Ruseva-Slokoska, L., Roman Jewellery, Sofia, 1991, item 193, for type.
FootnotesThe ring belongs to the type I, variant 3, of Roman gold rings according to Ruseva-Slokoska’s classification. These rings had massive ellipsoid hoops with bands semi-circular on the outside, wider and thicker towards the shoulders.
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LOT 0230
Early Byzantine Gold and Garnet Gemstone Ring with Bird
Estimate £1,200 - 1,700€1,390 - 1,970 (for guidance only)$1,620 - 2,300 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£667 (EUR 773; USD 900) ‡+BP*
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Byzantine Bronze Oil Lamp with Chain and Chi Rho
Circa 5th-6th century A.D.Estimate: £3,500 - 4,500 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,750
With a carinated, round body and long, narrow nozzle with a flaring finial, a scalloped rim around the circular wick hole; small circular filling hole with a hinged, domed lid; the elaborate trumpet-shaped handle with a hexagonal lotus flower finial with knops, and a raised Chi Rho at the forward edge; looped suspension chain with a hook, and a square socket at the base to accommodate a stand pricket. 1.08 kg, 40 cm
Private collection, Stortford, England, 1982. with Christie's, New York, 9 June 2011, no.203. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13194-250130.
These lamps were produced in the Eastern Mediterranean, possibly in more than one centre (one was certainly in Syracuse, Benevento, another probably in Asia Minor, but some specimens come from Rome and Constantinople). -
Byzantine Bronze Cross Pendant with Reverse Inscription
10th-12th century AD.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £15
Heavy cross pendant showing a nimbate robed figure on one side holding a staff and a thurible, a Greek inscription on the reverse. 36 grams, 65 mm
Acquired on UK art market in the 1990s. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
Byzantine Bronze Pendant with Saint
Circa 6th-8th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Tongue-shaped plaque with incised female figure in orans gesture to one face, concentric ring pattern in three columns to the other face; attachment loop to the top. 3.87 grams, 25 mm
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
