Details

LOT 0550

Post Medieval Gold Ring with Diamond Cross

1650-1680 AD

1" (10 grams, 28mm overall, 18.07mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 3/4, Europe 16.55, Japan 16)).

A D-section gold hoop with segmented shoulders and cruciform bezel; the underside with pierced attachment lug; the sides each with two bifid crosses flanking a cell with rose-cut diamond, three rectangular cells each with a rose-cut diamond; the bezel with five similar diamonds, lobed underside with central small diamond.

Provenance

Property of a UK gentleman; acquired from a London gallery in the late 1980s; formerly from a private European collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s. Accompanied by a X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate.

Literature

Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 683 for type.

Footnotes

Accompanied by a scholarly note from Dr Ronald Bonewitz regarding the quality and cutting of the diamonds, dated 2 March, 2017.

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