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LOT 1774
Medieval Bronze Ring with Leaping Lion
14TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (1.48 grams, 21.61 mm overall, 19.40 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)).
Discoid bezel with incuse leaping lion motif, with curled tail. [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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