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LOT 1950

Sold for (Inc. bp): £52

TUDOR PERIOD BRONZE RING WITH BIRDS ON NEST
CIRCA 16TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (5.47 grams, 22.42 mm overall, 18.63 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q 1/2, USA 8 1/4, Europe 18.12, Japan 17)).

Carinated hoop, geometric panels to the shoulders, lentoid bezel with incuse motif of two facing birds on a nest. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 646.

CONDITION
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