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LOT 0370
Renaissance Gold Ring with Emerald
PROBABLY SOUTH GERMANY, CIRCA 1570–1590 A.D.
1 in. (4.26 grams, 26.19 mm overall, 16.36 x 17.38 mm internal diameter (approximate size British L, USA 5 3/4, Europe 11.24, Japan 10)).
Set with a rectangular table-cut emerald in a raised box collet, small petal-shaped projections surrounding the stone, creating a flower-like setting, the bezel supported by chased and pierced foliate scroll shoulders projecting from a slender hoop.
ProvenanceAcquired on the European art market.
UK, private collection.
The combination of the projecting floral collet, table-cut stone and vegetal shoulders corresponds to late sixteenth-century South German rings, including an emerald ring with a Blütenfassung, or flower setting, in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, T 4298.
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LOT 0370
Renaissance Gold Ring with Emerald
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000€1,740 - 2,320 (for guidance only)$2,030 - 2,700 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£750 (EUR 870; USD 1,013) +BP*
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Framed Antique Photographs
20th century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising two framed antique photos on a hand-painted field, one with 'Frankreich' inscription to the paper and a photo of a man sitting behind a horned trophy animal; one with a large group of men standing in front of a state in a historical courtyard. 1.23 kg total, 29 x 28 - 31.6 x 26.5 cm
Private collection, London, UK. -
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Post Medieval Agate Cameo of a Greek Warrior in Gold Ring
Italy, early 19th century A.D.Estimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £600
Carved in high relief with the profile bust of a helmetted Greek warrior, the helmet with a prominent crest, and a leaping gryphon on the side; set within a later ring mount. 13.12 grams, 27.95 mm overall, 17.07 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M 1/2, USA 6 1/4, Europe 13.09, Japan 12)
Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection. -
Two Georgian Political Caricatures by James Sayers
1788 A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £25
Comprising: 'The Shadow of Opposition' etching, published 31 March 1788 by Thomas Cornell, monogrammed in the plate 'JS f', a satire on the Foxite Opposition, with the motto 'Stat Magni Nominis Umbra' and the verses 'Each Patriots Speech another Speech affords / The C—ns have their Echo in the L—ds'; 'The Managers in Distress, etching, published 11 April 1788 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street, monogrammed in the plate 'JS f' a satire on Burke, Fox and the other managers of the Warren Hastings impeachment, shown falling from a collapsing bridge: 'D—n the Piers they won't support us', punning on the House of Lords 'Peers'; both mounted. 282 grams total, 32.5 x 32 - 35 x 30 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Harwich, UK, collector.
Sayers was one of the leading political caricaturists of the 1780s, a supporter of Pitt, and best known for his attacks on Fox and the Hastings prosecution. Both prints were published by Thomas Cornell, Sayers's regular publisher, within a fortnight of each other during the early months of the Hastings trial.
