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LOT 0517
Sold for (Inc. bp): £32,240
MEDIEVAL GOLD INSCRIBED SIGNET RING WITH COUCHANT HOUND
15TH CENTURY AD
1" (14 grams, 23mm overall, 19.95mm internal diameter (approximate size British U, USA 10, Europe 22.52, Japan 21)).
15TH CENTURY AD
1" (14 grams, 23mm overall, 19.95mm internal diameter (approximate size British U, USA 10, Europe 22.52, Japan 21)).
A D-section gold hoop with flared shoulders and discoid bezel; diagonal beaded bands to the lower hoop, diagonal scooped bands to the shoulders with flower and crown detailing; the bezel with couchant hound in a field with 'mgy' and asterisk above within a beaded border; blackletter text to the inside of the hoop 'Honneur+et+Joye'.
PROVENANCE:
From an important London collection, acquired in the 1990s. Accompanied by a X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 607 for type.
