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Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,420
17TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (1.89 grams, 21.50 mm overall, 16.63 mm internal diameter (approximate size British L 1/2, USA 6, Europe 11.87, Japan 11)).
A gold ring composed of a slender hoop embellished with tapering, white enamelled shoulders with black enamelled flourishes, fluted box collet setting, set with a pink foil back and table-cut rock crystal; accompanied by a vintage ring box.
PROVENANCE:
Valued by Bentley & Skinner, Piccadilly, London W1, 2016.
Property of an East Sussex collector.
Accompanied by a copy of the Bentley & Skinner insurance valuation.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11669-197584.
LITERATURE:
Cf. The V&A Museum, accession number 1112-1864, for a similar ring; cf. Oman, C., British Rings 800-1914, London, 1974, pl. 3, for similar rings; cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, Vol.1, Leeds, 1994, items 757-758, for similar; cf. Oman, C., British Rings 800-1914, London, 1974, pl. III, for a similar ring.
FOOTNOTES:
The V & A Museum explains that during the '...Renaissance, the ring developed from the simple forms of the medieval period into a miniature work of art, combining the skills of the chaser, engraver and enameller as well as the stone cutter.
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