James I Period Gold Ring with Diamond

EARLY 17TH CENTURY AD

1" (9.17 grams, 25.91mm overall, 17.68mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)).

A gold ring with D-section band flaring to ornamented and scrolled shoulders supporting a square cell bezel holding a square diamond of early cut.

Provenance

Property of a UK gentleman; acquired from a London gallery in the late 1980s; formerly from a private European collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s; accompanied by an independent specialist report and valuation by graduate gemmologist and jewellery expert Anna Rogers, GIA GG, BA, Gem-A, ref. no. 0613/02/06/2020.

Literature

Cf. Dalton, O. M., Franks Bequest Catalogue of the Finger Rings, British Museum, London, 1912, nos. 1908-1909 for similar form.

CONDITION

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LOT 0613

James I Period Gold Ring with Diamond

Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,875

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