Medieval Bronze Signet Ring with 'IN DEO VIVAS' Inscription

CIRCA 14TH CENTURY A.D.

7/8 in. (4.23 grams, 21.91 mm overall, 17.68 x 17.87 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)).

With segmented hoop and integral square bezel, legend in two lines of Roman capitals 'IN DE / VIVAS' (may you live in God).

Provenance

Acquired from Derek Content, 17 October 1989.
Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent.

Accompanied by a handwritten letter from Derek Content, dated 17 October 1989.

Literature

Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 576, for type.

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