AN ETRUSCAN HOLLOW GOLD CARTOUCHE RING

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AN ETRUSCAN HOLLOW GOLD CARTOUCHE RING
6TH CENTURY B.C.
The slender circular hoop with cartouche-shaped bezel decorated with engraved scene: within a herring-bone border is depicted a branching tree to the left, a tall twig in the centre and to the right a crouching yet alert sphinx with outstretched wing
Bezel ¾ in. (1.8 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
H. A. Cahn, Art of Ancient Italy, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, exh. cat., New York, 1970, p. 19, no. 24 b.

Cf. R. Higgins, Greek and Roman Jewellery, California, 1980, p. 145, pl. 35 A; and The Collection of Rings of the late Monsieur Guilhou, Sotheby's, London, 9 November 1937, lot 42, pl. IV for similar.

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