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LOT 1700
Medieval Bronze Ring with Horseman
15TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (6.60 grams, 24.94 mm overall, 21.12 mm internal diameter (approximate size British X, USA 11 1/2, Europe 26.29, Japan 25)).
With facetted shoulders, octagonal bezel with incuse image of a horseman on a rearing mount, objects in the field. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 596, for type.
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