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LOT 1950
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.
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