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LOT 1948
Medieval Ring with Spread Eagle
11TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (3.35 grams, 22.64 mm overall, 19.25 mm internal diameter (approximate size British S 1/2, USA 9 1/4, Europe 20.63, Japan 19)).
D-section hoop and a discoid bezel with an incuse image of an eagle with its wings spread. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired on the UK and EU art market before 2000.
From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Literature
Cf. Đurović, I., Средњовековни накит из збирки Народног музеја Крагујевац (Medieval jewelry from the collections of the National Museum Kragujevac, in Serbian), Крагујевац, 2012, fig.60, for the type.
Footnotes
In this category of rings, the oval hoop gradually widens into a full shoulder and a massive, flattened bezel. The bezel is an ellipsoidal field, decorated with the image of an imperial eagle. The eagle was a common motif in Romanesque art, both in the West and the East.
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