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LOT 0148
Roman Gold Ring with Nicolo Mercury Gemstone
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (6.44 grams, 22.32 mm overall, 18.37 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M, USA 6, Europe 12.46, Japan 12)).
D-section hoop with flared bezel, set with blue nicolo intaglio bearing a profile bust of a young male wearing a hat, possibly god Mercury.
ProvenanceUK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Private collection, London, UK.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12817-240728.
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. The British Museum, 1917,0501.427; Ruseva-Slokoska, L., Roman Jewellery, Sofia, 1991, item 189, Type I, variant 3.
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LOT 0148
Roman Gold Ring with Nicolo Mercury Gemstone
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000€2,320 - 3,480 (for guidance only)$2,700 - 4,050 (for guidance only)
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Typologically related earrings were particularly common in the Caucasus, where they have been dated by archaeologists to the first centuries A.D. This was mainly a product of Hellenised workers of the area of Pontus or Asia Minor, and the material culture of the Greek cities of the North Pontus region was completely absorbed by their new Roman rulers and largely diffused in style and orientation in the Eastern Roman provinces.
