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A SELJUK GOLD RING
- PERSIA, LATE 12TH/EARLY 13TH CENTURY

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A SELJUK GOLD RING
PERSIA, LATE 12TH/EARLY 13TH CENTURY
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • £2,115
  • ($3,022)
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    £2,000 - £2,500
  • ($2,858 - $3,573)

Sale Information

Sale 6428
ISLAMIC ART AND MANUSCRIPTS
1 May 2001
London, King Street





Lot Description

A SELJUK GOLD RING
Persia, late 12th/early 13th Century
The circular bezel with central openwork field of two confronted birds within a four-lobed cartouche surrounded by a raised border of spiralling arabesques and with four pseudo-claws, the shoulders in the form of human figures holding a crescent shape engraved with arabesques, shank replaced, rubbing to high points
5/8in. (1.7cm.) high

Special Notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Notes

This elaborate ring, almost Gothic in feel, is very similar to a worn example in the L.A.Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art (Hasson, Rachel: Early Islamic Jewellery, Jerusalem, 1987, no.56, p.49). Another similar is in New York (Jenkins, Marilyn and Keene, Manuel: Islamic Jewelry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, no.31). A further very large example was sold in these Rooms 28 April 1998, lot 311. The shoulders of this ring are very similar to the harpies supporting a pottery lustre dish dated AH 611 (1214 AD) (Bahrami, M.: Gurgan Faiences, Cairo, 1949, pl.LVII).