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LOT 0326
Medieval Silver-Gilt Iconographic Ring
CONTINENTAL EUROPE, 15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (9.85 grams, 25.63 mm overall, 20.90 mm internal diameter (approximate size British U 1/2, USA 10 1/4, Europe 23.15, Japan 22)).
Heater shield to each keeled shoulder displaying a fleur-de-lys on a hatched field and five arrowheads (for the five wounds of Christ); rectangular keeled bezel with standing figure to each panel: Mary with book on the left, Christ triumphant bearing a sword on the right.
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1970s.
Ex E.C. Fuller collection.
Ex Isle of Avalon Coins and Antiquities, Leiston, Suffolk, UK.
Property of a Kent gentleman since 2010.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, items 589, 591, for type.
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LOT 0326
Medieval Silver-Gilt Iconographic Ring
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£300 (EUR 348; USD 405) +BP*
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