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LOT 1841
Medieval Silver Ring with Adam and Eve
15TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (6.81 grams, 24.04 mm overall, 21.40 mm internal diameter (approximate size British W, USA 11, Europe 25, Japan 24)).
With octagonal bezel, incised border with two figures flanking a tree, fronds to each side; Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the European art market since the early 2000s.
From the private Northern Ireland collection of R.M.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 596, for type.
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