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LOT 1747
Medieval Silver Ring with Bird
CIRCA 14TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (5.15 grams, 22.11 mm overall, 19.01 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18)).
Ellipsoid plaque with incised image of a dove bearing a cross in its beak, on a pounced field with arched clouds.
Provenance
Acquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 640, for type.
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