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LOT 0350
Elizabethan Period Gold Ring with Polished Natural Diamond Crystal
MID 16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (3.49 grams, 24.44 mm overall, 17.56 mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13)).
Comprising a slender hoop with flared shoulders; the bezel formed as four intersecting scallops, with gussets to the underside and tiered collars below; inset polished octahedral diamond crystal.
ProvenancePrivate collection of a North London lady before 2000.
Property of a London gentleman.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12145-215540.
Cf. Oman, C.C., British Rings 800-1914, London, 1974, pl.26(c), 27(a,b).
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LOT 0350
Elizabethan Period Gold Ring with Polished Natural Diamond Crystal
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13,000
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Chinese Tang Style Straw-Glazed Jug
20th century A.D. or earlierSold for (Inc. bp): £13
Of conical profile with broad rounded shoulder, trumpet-shaped neck with carinated sidewall; two square pierced lugs to the shoulder, zoomorphic spout and handle; band of interlocking 'wine-glass' motifs to the equator. 2.2 kg, 34 cm
Ex West Country, UK, collection, 1980-1990s. -
Mixed Reproduction Artefact Group
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £27
Comprising: a bronze axehead; a bronze short sword; a terracotta female figure; a waisted stamp-seal and another, plano-convex. 690 grams total, 3.3-40 cm
From various auction houses since circa 2005. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
William III Silver Love Token Group
1694-1702 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Group of three love tokens, each a sixpence coin bent into a double-curved profile; one pierced and with initials to each face. 7.45 grams total, 20 mm each
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
The custom of giving a bent coin as a love-token is known from the 17th century in England. The coins were usually smoothed to obliterate the monarch’s head and then bent twice; sometimes they were engraved with initials or symbols such as hearts or knots. If the sweetheart accepted the youth's advances, she kept the token; if not, she disposed of the coin. The tradition is referred to in the children's rhyme "There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, he found a crooked sixpence on a crooked stile."
