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LOT 1510
Tudor Period Ring with Cabochons
16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (5.24 grams, 26.96 mm overall, 20.46 mm internal diameter (approximate size British U, USA 10, Europe 22.52, Japan 21)).
A copper-alloy finger ring with slightly convex hoop with a raised knop at the bottom, ellipsoidal bezel with ring-and-dot motifs to the perimeter and a blue and red glass cabochon on a raised central platform. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
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