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LOT 0087
Roman Gold Ring with Venus Gemstone
2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
7/8 in. (3.25 grams, 22.33 mm overall, 15.67 mm internal diameter (approximate size British K, USA 5 1/4, Europe 9.95, Japan 9)).
A hollow-formed gold finger ring with inset sardonyx intaglio of Venus (Aphrodite) standing nude dressing her hair, hoop split.
Provenance
Ex Zurigo, Max Kopp collection (1891-1984).
English private collection.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 134, for type.
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