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AN IMPERIAL PRESENTATION DIAMOND AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL RING
Lot 227

AN IMPERIAL PRESENTATION DIAMOND AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL RING

UNKNOWN MAKER, ST PETERSBURG, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Closed3 June 2013

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AN IMPERIAL PRESENTATION DIAMOND AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL RING
UNKNOWN MAKER, ST PETERSBURG, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Oval, centring an ultramarine blue guilloché enamel cartouche with a diamond-set crowned initial for Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1822-1892), within two graduated rose-cut diamond borders, unmarked
7/8 in. (2.4 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a comparable presentation ring with the diamond-set cipher of Alexander I, see Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm, Jewels from Imperial St. Petersburg, St Petersburg and La Berlière, 2012, p. 60.
For a silver casket with the cypher of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, see lot 257.