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LOT 0211
Veneto-Byzantine Gold Ring with 'God Help the Wearer' Inscription
CIRCA 14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (7.51 grams, 22.33 mm overall, 19.36 x 17.21 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16)).
With niello-filled tendril scrolls to the shoulders, ellipsoid bezel with lateral knops, niello-filled border and legend 'ΚΕΒΟΗΘΙ/ΤΟΝΦOΡO/HTATω' (may God help the wearer).
ProvenanceCollection of Maritine, Countess of Behague, from the estate of the Marquis de Ganay.
Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, no.202.
Objects with Semitic Inscriptions, Jewish, Early Christian and Byzantine Antiquities, 20 November 1989, no.331.
Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent.
Accompanied by a copy of the relevant 1989 catalogue pages.
Cf. Wamser, L., Die Welt von Byzanz - Europas Östliches Erbe, München, 2004, item 675, for a less elaborate but similar design.
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LOT 0211
Veneto-Byzantine Gold Ring with 'God Help the Wearer' Inscription
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000€4,640 - 6,960 (for guidance only)$5,400 - 8,100 (for guidance only)
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Slender flat-section hoop with clasped hands (mane in fede) to underside flanked by hatched cuffs; profile dove to each shoulder; bezel pierced with knotwork motif. 2.27 grams, 20.90 mm overall, 19.34 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18)
Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent.
