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LOT 0718
Roman Bronze Ring with Bird
4TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (3.98 grams, 24.21 mm overall, 19.16 mm internal diameter (approximate size British S, USA 9, Europe 20, Japan 19)).
Comprising a slender hoop and a raised lentoid-shaped bezel with a standing bird, probably a dove. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK and EU art market before 2000.
From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
See Bequest, F., Catalogue of the finger rings Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediaeval and later, London, 1912, no.15, for the typology.
FootnotesA considerable proportion of rings of the Late Roman Christian Empire are signets, with portraits, names or monograms, and emblems such as the cross, the fish, the dove, i.e. early Christian symbols, and most of these have the designs cut in a metal bezel.
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