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CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
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A ROMAN GOLD AND EMERALD FINGER RING
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
The hoop solid cast, the shoulders in the form of duck heads with sunken eyes and stippling for the feathers, their bills merging with the stepped oval bezel, its sides enhanced by hatching, set with an earlier 1st century A.D. convex oval stone engraved with a winged nude Eros riding on the back of a mouse, the Eros playing an aulos, on a groundline
15/16 in. (2.3 cm.) wide
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
The hoop solid cast, the shoulders in the form of duck heads with sunken eyes and stippling for the feathers, their bills merging with the stepped oval bezel, its sides enhanced by hatching, set with an earlier 1st century A.D. convex oval stone engraved with a winged nude Eros riding on the back of a mouse, the Eros playing an aulos, on a groundline
15/16 in. (2.3 cm.) wide
Provenance
Acquired by the current owner in 1988.