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LOT 2176
Silver Memento Mori Skull Ring
MID 20TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (10.80 grams, 31.65 mm overall, 19.41 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T 1/2, USA 9 3/4, Europe 21.89, Japan 21)).
Round-section shank developing to scrolled palmette shoulders flanking a skull, hollow to the reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1980s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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Comprising a parcel-gilt raised discoid base with fluted hexafoil developing to a central column with braided collar and openwork crown socket; inset portion of natural coral branch; figure of St Sebastian modelled in the round with three arrows piercing his shoulders and chest and the stub of a fourth in his shin, portrayed with gilt loincloth and centre-parted hair, braided wire bonds to the left wrist and one ankle' old collector's numbers 'V.590.3H1 7' and '18688' to underside. 190 grams, 12.4 cm
F.K.A. Huelsmann, Hamburg. with Christie's, Geneva, 13 May 1981, no.7. Private collection, South Germany. with Hargesheimer & Gunther, 22 September 2017, no.1307. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12507-230673. 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.
This lot will require a CITES licence when exported outside the UK.
