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LOT 1359
Medieval Silver Ring with Lion
CIRCA 15TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (10.4 grams, 25.70 mm overall, 19.29 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P 1/2, USA 7 3/4, Europe 16.86, Japan 16)).
A silver finger ring with hatched transverse bands to the equator, facetted shoulders with foliage detailing, octagonal bezel with incised running lion with tail raised beneath a star and crescent.
Provenance
Acquired in the late 1990s-2000.
Property of an East London gentleman.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 661, for type.
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