A Renaissance, gold, rock crystal and enamel ring
Lot 338

A Renaissance, gold, rock crystal and enamel ring

Closed9 October 2012

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GBP 4,000

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A Renaissance, gold, rock crystal and enamel ring
The high bezel closed-set with a rectangular-cut rock crystal with quatrefoil lobes decorated with black, white and green enamel with engrailed edge simulating claws, the chased shoulders with enamelled arabesques and volutes to a chased foliate hoop with traces of black enamel, circa 1570, centre stone possibly a replacement, probably German, finger size J½

Private collection, Germany; acquired 1960-1981, and thence by descent to the present owner.