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LOT 1852
Gold Ring with Scorpion Gemstone
20TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (4.07 grams, 23.10 mm overall, 18.14 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)).
With doubled ropework hoop and granule to each shoulder supporting an ellipsoid plaque with ropework rim, inset carnelian intaglio with incuse scorpion and Sassanian script legend beneath. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired Suffolk, UK, before 2000.
Property of a Bedfordshire, UK, private collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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