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LOT 0545
Migration Period Gold Ring with Triple Bezel
5TH CENTURY AD
1" (7.54 grams, 26.90mm overall, 20.56mm internal diameter (approximate size British U, USA 10, Europe 22.52, Japan 21)).
A gold finger formed as three curved serpents on a field with beaded wire borders, the heads conjoined at each end into an openwork panel extending to the tapering hoop.
Provenance
Property of a North London gentleman; previously in a Russian collection formed pre 1970.
Literature
See Franceschi, G., Jorn, A. & Magnus, B. Fuglen, Dyret og Mennesket i Nordisk Jernalderkunst, vol.2, Borgen, 2005, item 76 for type.
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