Lot Essay
For a similar opus interrasile ring cf. A. B. Chadour, Rings: The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, I, Leeds, 1994, p. 122, no. 421.
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CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN GOLD AND JASPER INTAGLIO RING
CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
The re-set intaglio with a figure of a huntsman on horseback being attacked by a feline which springs out from under a bending tree, mounted in a 3rd Century A.D. opus interrasile heavy gold hoop cut with a stylized openwork foliate design
1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm.) across hoop
CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
The re-set intaglio with a figure of a huntsman on horseback being attacked by a feline which springs out from under a bending tree, mounted in a 3rd Century A.D. opus interrasile heavy gold hoop cut with a stylized openwork foliate design
1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm.) across hoop
Provenance
Acquired on the New York art market in 1995.
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