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Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,420
4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (6.97 grams, 24.18 mm overall, 15.20 mm internal diameter (approximate size British E 1/2, USA 2 1/2, Europe 3, Japan 3)).
Comprising a square-section hoop with expanding shoulders, each shoulder set with a garnet cabochon and the raised square bezel with an emerald.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
Important North West London collection.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.11783-204563.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Daremberg & Saglio, Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines, Paris, 1873-1917; similar example in the British Museum, in Marshall, F.H., Dictionnaire Catalogue of the finger rings Greek, Etruscan & Roman in the departments of Antiquities of British Museum, London, 1968 p.189, pl. XXIX, n. 1196; Chadour, A.B., Rings, The Alice and Louis Koch collection, Leeds, 1994, no.332, for a similar type; also nos.428 and 430, for rings with garnet and emeralds.
FOOTNOTES:
The presence of emerald suggests that the place of origin of this ring could have been in Roman Egypt, and the good colour of the emerald proposes a dating to the 4th to 5th century A.D.
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