PROBABLY DECCAN, 17TH CENTURY

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A MASSIVE INDIAN RUBY AND EMERALD INSET GOLD RING
PROBABLY DECCAN, 17TH CENTURY
The bezel of ruby inset rosette form surmounted by a massive bird inset with rubies and emeralds, the bezel with sharply fluted domed back flanked on each side by an inset further bird rising from the shoulder of the hoop, the hoop with a band of ruby inset roundels
Overall 2 5/8in. (6.5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A smaller but finer ring of very similar form to the present example is in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, attributed to the first quarter of the 17th century (Manuel Keene and Salam Kaoukji, Treasury of the World, London, 2001, no.8.37, p.108). The birds on the shanks of the present ring are considerably more pronounced than in that example.

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