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A South East Asian gold ring
The pointed oval bezel engraved with Nagari script, the hoop of shaped triangular section with sharply protruding shoulders, Java, 9th to 12th century, finger size L
The pointed oval bezel engraved with Nagari script, the hoop of shaped triangular section with sharply protruding shoulders, Java, 9th to 12th century, finger size L
Provenance
Private collection, Germany; acquired 1960-1981, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
For similar rings cf. op. cit. A. Richter, p.180, pl.168, also op. cit. J. Boardman p.87 no. 213, also op. cit. O.M.Dalton, no. 2433, also op. cit. A.B. Chadour, Vol. II, p.623, no 1967 & 1968, also The Samuel Eilenberg-Jonathan P. Rosen Collection of Indonesian Gold, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Accession number 1998.544.413, also Christie's London, Rings from Antiquity to the Present Day, October 1988, lot 346.
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