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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)
Opening Bid
£2,000 (EUR 2,320; USD 2,700) ‡+BP*
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Opening Bid: £5
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Ex J. Zadok & Sons, 18, King David Road, Jerusalem, Israel. From the G.H. Freelander collection, formed in the late 1970s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. Accompanied by a previous catalogue information slip. -
Byzantine Bronze Oil Lamp with Chain and Chi Rho
Circa 5th-6th century A.D.Estimate: £3,500 - 4,500 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,750
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Private collection, Stortford, England, 1982. with Christie's, New York, 9 June 2011, no.203. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13194-250130.
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Opening Bid: £5
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From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
