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LOT 1477
Roman Style Silver Rings with Gemstones
20TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (31 grams total, 25 mm each).
A pair of silver finger rings with flared shoulders, one with inset carnelian cloison intaglio of Mercury with caduceus, the other with jasper intaglio of the same subject. [2]
Provenancewith Dawson's, London, 31 February 2022, lot 464 [Part, Listed as Roman, £3,317.60].
English private collection.
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