Western Asiatic Bronze Ring with Victory

Matched pair of gold earrings, each formed as two bulbs with a string of granules to the waist, loop to one end to accept a wire fastener. 5.32 grams total, 31-32 mm



From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s. Accompanied by an earlier catalogue identification card.

Squat bowl of carinated profile with basal ring; burnished inner face with painted design of leaves and tendrils. 82 grams, 10.5 cm diameter



From an important collection of Nabataean pottery formed before 1988.

With a keeled hoop and openwork shield-shaped shoulder with scroll ornament, a diamond-shaped shield with a cross to the base of the hoop; large bezel with an applied stylised bird underneath, the sides with pellet ornament in three rows, four claws holding the 4th-5th century Sassanian intaglio depicting a boar devouring the leg of its prey. 8.63 grams, 25.72 mm overall, 18.95 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P 1/2, USA 7 3/4, Europe 16.86, Japan 16)



Private collection, USA, acquired in the 1990s. Accompanied by a copy of a previous cataloguing information page.

It was a fairly common practice to re-use Sassanian intaglios in Islamic rings from Iran. In Eastern cultures the boar was a sacred animal with magical powers.