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LOT 1905
Eastern Medieval Bronze Ring with Zoomorphic Design
11TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (5.62 grams, 20.53 mm overall, 15.29 mm internal diameter (approximate size British G 1/2, USA 3 1/2, Europe 5.55, Japan 5)).
Slender hoop with expanding shoulders, a discoid bezel with incuse horse-head and the head of a rider behind, crescent above. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK and EU art market before 2000.
From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Đurović, I., Средњовековни накит из збирки Народног музеја Крагујевац (Medieval jewelry from the collections of the National Museum Kragujevac, in Serbian), Крагујевац, 2012, fig.58, for the type.
FootnotesThese banded rings, made of bronze sheet with a flattened ellipsoidal bezel, could be decorated with geometric or animal ornaments executed by shallow carving. The animal repertoire was borrowed from the contemporary Romanesque art.
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Eastern Medieval Enamelled Bronze Ring
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Found UK. Acquired on the UK and EU art market before 2000. From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
This type of ring with a very large oval bezel finds a good parallel with a bronze specimen found in the area of Smederevo. The use of the enamel could suggest the continuation of the ancient Roman tradition in the territories under the Eastern Roman Empire.
