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LOT 0425
Renaissance Gold Ring with Rock Crystal Cabochon
16TH-17TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (3.34 grams, 21.66 mm overall, 16.26 mm internal diameter (approximate size British I 1/2, USA 4 1/2, Europe 8.07, Japan 7)).
With sculpted fronds to the shoulders, bezel a rectangular cell with hatched underside and scooped ledges, inset rock crystal cloison.
ProvenanceAcquired on the European art market in the 1990s.
UK collection of a European gentleman.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, items 699, 700, for type.
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