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LOT 1558
Medieval Bronze Ring with Cross
14TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (8.28 grams, 24.15 mm overall, 18.64 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)).
The angled hoop with slightly expanded shoulders with facets, six-sided bezel engraved with a central cross within a lozengiform plaque, dashes populating the outer quarters. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
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The use of seals became more and more essential during the time when the majority of the population was illiterate; the use of signet rings continued until after the fall of Rome in the West. With the establishment of heraldry, the armorial signet was generally adopted by all those entitled to bear arms. A considerable proportion of medieval rings were signets, with portraits, names or monograms, and emblems such as the cross, most of these having the designs cut in a metal bezel.
