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Lot 257 - Auction 107

A late roman gold ring set with emerald and garnets.
Estimate:
3.000,00/5.000,00 £
Starting price:
2.500,00 GBP
Price realized:
3.400,00 GBP
Bids:
4

Bids

Lot status:
Auction closed

Description

A late roman gold ring set with emerald and garnets.

4th - 5th century A.D.

Int diam 20 mm; bezel 24 x 25 mm . 14,43 gr

Gold ring with five box-settings containing four cabochon garnets, and in the center a large rectangular emerald root. On each angle 4 spherical plain gold beads saldered together. The hoop is rounded and composed of a double grooved gibbon with in the center of two twisted and roped wires covered within by a gold plaque, extending under the rectangular box-setting onto 4 globular ramifications. Very rare. Parallels: Marshall, F.H., Finger Rings, 1968, pl. XXI-XXII British Museum, inv. 1981,0201.14

Provenance: english art market.
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