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LOT 0577

Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,250

MEDIEVAL GOLD RING WITH STAR SAPPHIRE
12TH-13TH CENTURY AD
1 1/4" (8.96 grams, 31mm overall, 19.38mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16)).

A gold finger ring comprising a round-section hoop, ellipsoid pie-dish bezel with claw setting, inset star sapphire cabochon.

PROVENANCE:
Property of a central London collector; acquired from a large private collection formed in the 1980s; supplied with geologic report No. TL005232, by geologic consultant Dr R. L. Bonewitz

LITERATURE:
Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 562.

CONDITION
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