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LOT 0465
Egyptian Blue Glass Ring
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
11/4 in. (10.61 grams, 32.49 mm overall, 19.42 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T, USA 9 1/2, Europe 21.26, Japan 20)).
Wound construction with raised partially gilded decoration. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 15, for type.
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