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LOT 0669
Roman Silver Ring with Portrait Gemstone
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D. AND LATER
1 in. (8.75 grams, 23.88 mm overall, 16.17 mm internal diameter (approximate size British F, USA 2 3/4, Europe 3.67, Japan 3)).
With pointed angles to the plaque, stepped cell with inset later carnelian intaglio profile portrait bust.
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 353.
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