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LOT 0418
Medieval Silver Iconographic Type Ring with Heart and Cross
15TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (4.13 grams, 22.85 mm overall, 19.78 mm internal diameter (approximate size British S 1/2, USA 9 1/4, Europe 20.63, Japan 19)).
The lower shank with facets, each with a reserved cross pommee; the shoulders each with a heater-shaped panel, one with a cross moline and the other with a heart; the bezel in two panels, one with a row of hearts, the other with ropework; traces of gilding to the bezel.
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, items 587-588, for type.
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LOT 0418
Medieval Silver Iconographic Type Ring with Heart and Cross
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
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