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LOT 0090
Roman Gold Ring with Ewer Gemstone
2ND CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (3.96 grams, 19.00 mm overall, 15.95 mm internal diameter (approximate size British G 1/2, USA 3 1/2, Europe 5.55, Japan 5)).
A gold finger ring with inset carnelian intaglio of a ewer or wine-jar.
ProvenanceUK private collection, since 1956.
Formed in the 1950s by Mr and Mrs S. Broukal, thence by decent.
with Bonhams, London, New Bond Street, 30 November 2016, lot 155 [Part].
English private collection.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 220.
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