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LOT 0348
Renaissance Gold Ring with Diamond Crystal
EARLY 16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (4.19 grams, 27.25 mm overall, 17.52 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)).
Slender hoop with raised shoulders leaves displaying leaves and volutes, quatrefoil bezel with stepped edges and set with a point-cut diamond crystal.
ProvenancePrivate collection of a North London lady before 2000.
Property of a London gentleman.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12754-236647.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Scarisbrick, D., Rings: Jewelry Of Power, Love and Loyalty, Thames & Hudson, London, 2013, pp.306-307, for similar rings and diamonds; cf. The V&A Museum, accession numbers M.220-1975 and 934-1871, for broadly comparable examples.
FootnotesThis type ring seems to have been very popular in Renaissance Europe during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Numerous parallels and portraits give evidence for this fashion. Similar ring types are in the National Museum of Bargello, Firenze, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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