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LOT 1865
Medieval Silver Ring with Coiled Cross
15TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (2.93 grams, 21.10 mm overall, 17.93 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)).
With carinated hoop, quatrefoil to each shoulder, scaphoid bezel with hatched border and spiral quatrefoil. [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 615, for type.
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