A PAIR OF LARGE WESTERN ASIATIC HEAVY BRONZE PENANNULAR RINGS

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PROPERTY FROM A DECEASED ESTATE Provenance: acquired by the late Gavin Todhunter mainly during the late 1940s-1970s (lots 1-5, 205-211, 258-263, 287-327).

A PAIR OF LARGE WESTERN ASIATIC HEAVY BRONZE PENANNULAR RINGS

1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

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A PAIR OF LARGE WESTERN ASIATIC HEAVY BRONZE PENANNULAR RINGS
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
Each with three rows of bosses on the shoulders interspersed with bands of parallel grooves, further bosses and incised linear designs around the sides, with closely fitting flat clubbed terminals
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

Cf. Ashmolean Museum Exhibition Catalogue, Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, p. 135, no. 17.40 for a similar ring.

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