ROMAN - GOLD RING WITH 'STANDING FIGURE' INTAGLIO Circa 3rd-4th century AD. A gold D-shaped finger ring comprising a broad openwork band pierced with addorsed crescents; its bezel a flat plate with six pierced lobe extensions with triangles of granulation at each side; the bezel set with an amber and white glass intaglio of a young female holding a cornucopiae in her left hand, her right hand raised to her face. 8.74 grams, 24.47 mm, internal 22,21 x 17.01 mm. Good very fine condition, large and wearable. Provenance Purchased from a London gallery in the late 1970's. Literature Cf. C.C. Oman, Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Rings , London, 1930 no.126.
ROMAN - GOLD RING WITH 'STANDING FIGURE' INTAGLIO Circa 3rd-4th century AD. A gold D-shaped finger ring comprising a broad openwork band pierced with addorsed crescents; its bezel a flat plate with six pierced lobe extensions with triangles of granulation at each side; the bezel set with an amber and white glass intaglio of a young female holding a cornucopiae in her left hand, her right hand raised to her face. 8.74 grams, 24.47 mm, internal 22,21 x 17.01 mm. Good very fine condition, large and wearable. Provenance Purchased from a London gallery in the late 1970's. Literature Cf. C.C. Oman, Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Rings , London, 1930 no.126.
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