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A MASSIVE GILT-BRONZE PAPAL RING
The punched mount applied below the bezel with symbols of the four Evangelists, with crowned Royal Arms of France and Papal tiara and arms of Paul II (1464-1471) at the tapering shoulders, reverse of the hoop inscribed 'Papa Paul', with later polished rock-crystal in the bezel, 15th Century, finger size W
Provenance: Mentmore, Sotheby's 23 May, 1977, lot 1831
Cf. H. Newman, An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewellery, 1981, p.227
The punched mount applied below the bezel with symbols of the four Evangelists, with crowned Royal Arms of France and Papal tiara and arms of Paul II (1464-1471) at the tapering shoulders, reverse of the hoop inscribed 'Papa Paul', with later polished rock-crystal in the bezel, 15th Century, finger size W
Provenance: Mentmore, Sotheby's 23 May, 1977, lot 1831
Cf. H. Newman, An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewellery, 1981, p.227