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LOT 0470
Romano-Egyptian Silver Ring with Cat and Kittens
ROMAN PERIOD, 30 B.C.-323 AD.
1 in. (9.21 grams, 25.43 mm overall, 19.32 mm internal diameter (approximate size British J 1/2, USA 5, Europe 9.32, Japan 9)).
D-shaped in profile with flared shoulders, bezel with a reclining cat and two sitting kittens facing in opposite directions. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 16, for type.
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