Lot Essay
For similar use of pegged pearls on a brooch dated circa 1350 C.f. R.W. Lightbown, European jewellery, with a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1992, p.422 plate, 26.
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Details
A Mediaeval 14th Century gold and enamel allegorical ring,
the large band divided into three rectangular box sections with red enamel base, each housing a modelled figure representing a king, a lion and a jester, the wasted divisions with pegged seed pearl clusters and repeated seed pearl borders, the seed pearls probably later replacements, some deficient, reputedly from Léon, Spain.
See plate 1
the large band divided into three rectangular box sections with red enamel base, each housing a modelled figure representing a king, a lion and a jester, the wasted divisions with pegged seed pearl clusters and repeated seed pearl borders, the seed pearls probably later replacements, some deficient, reputedly from Léon, Spain.
See plate 1
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Further details
For similar use of pegged pearls on a brooch dated circa 1350 C.f. R.W. Lightbown, European jewellery, with a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1992, p.422 plate, 26.
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