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LOT 1897
Eastern Medieval Bronze Ring with Zoomorphic Design
11TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (2.49 grams, 21.31 mm overall, 18.52 mm internal diameter (approximate size British K1/2, USA 5 1/2, Europe 10.58, Japan 10)).
Flat-section hoop and discoid bezel with incused stylised animal. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Hampshire, UK.
Acquired 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.56, 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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