Medieval God the Father Enthroned Oil on Panel

Roundel with painted image of the Corpus Christi having been taken down from the cross and prepared for burial; weeping mourners in the foreground, grave-diggers and cave of Golgotha behind, city walls in the distance. 365 grams, 23.5 cm



Private collection, South-West England. Ex central London gallery.

With thick segmented hoop and square bezel; each shoulder with a tapering panel depicting a winged nimbate figure, facing; below this, a rectangular panel with a voided cross; underside with a nimbate eagle; above the shoulders, two splayed fronds; lateral faces of the bezel with flowers, each larger face with nimbate figure on a hatched field; underside with inscription oremus (let us pray). 15.77 grams, 27.25 mm overall, 20.16 mm internal diameter (approximate size British U 1/2, USA 10 1/4, Europe 23, Japan 22)



Private collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1975-late 1990s.

The nimbate figures and inscription suggest that the ring was a devotional object belonging to a cleric or ecclesiastical leader.

Applied cross bottony silver-gilt plates with frond detailing to the edges, pounced fields, reserved running tendril motif with gilt detailing; high-relief quatrefoil panels with emblems of the four evangelists; Corpus Christi modelled in the round with gilt loincloth, cross roundel to the rear; later wooden mounting with loop to the reverse. 758 grams, 46.5 cm



with Lopez de Aragon, Madrid, 2014. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12044-212171.