Gold Ring with Diamond-Shaped Bezel Engraved with a Star

17TH CENTURY A.D.

3/4 in. (7.20 grams, 22.25 mm overall, 15.94 mm internal diameter (approximate size British I 1/2, USA 4 1/2, Europe 8.07, Japan 7)).

Slender hoop supporting a square bezel with domed underside with incised hatched detailing, hatched band to the rim, reserved motif to the upper face comprising a four-pointed star in reserved frame with scrolls surrounding. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From an old French collection believed to have been formed in the 1960s.
Acquired privately as part of a collection in the early 1990s.

Accompanied by a copy of a previous illustrated catalogue information page.

Literature

Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 541, for type.

CONDITION

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LOT 0344