Property of an American Private Collector
Two Roman Gold Rings, circa 1st Century B.C/ 3rd Century A.D.
Lot Closed
July 5, 03:01 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Two Roman Gold Rings
circa 1st Century B.C/ 3rd Century A.D.
one with broad hoop and raised oval bezel embraced by a lotus flower design, the other of simple form with high oval bezel set with a carnelian intaglio finely carved with the head of Herme💛s facing left.
Widths 3.9 cm. and 2 cm.
Thomas P. Miller, executive ass༺istan🧔t at The Cloisters, New York, acquired in Palermo in 1965
Dr. James D. Blackburn, Birm෴ingham,♏ Alabama, acquired from the above in 1990
then by descent to the present owner
For a related finger ring 😼🅺with an intaglio of Hermes in the British Museum, see accession no. 1894.0520.2, .