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Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,250
15TH CENTURY AD
1" (41 grams, 25mm overall, 19.86mm internal diameter (approximate size British T 1/2, USA 10, Europe 22.33, Japan 21)).
A substantial European gold finger ring comprising a broad hoop with six bands of pellet detailing to the outer face and three incuse flowers between the looped ends at the shoulders; discoid bezel with flared rim and beaded edge, Lombardic initials 'A' over 'G R' to the centre with inverted shoe(?) from which sprouts a flower between within plain circle; a legend to the border 'EDOILLE', the name of a place in the Vosges and a French surname derived from it, the second word is possibly Hebrew (?), with bird-on-branch flanked by rosettes at top and fleur-de-lis also with rosettes at side at base; initials 'G R A' to the underside of the bezel.
PROVENANCE:
Property of a UK gentleman; acquired from a London gallery in the late 1980s; formerly from a private European collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 604.
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