Gold Openwork Ring with Gemstone. 19th century... Lot 1865

Gold Openwork Ring with Gemstone. 19th century A.D. A hollow-formed D-shaped gold finger ring comprising: a flat plaque, lozengiform in plan, executed in opus interrasile with central cell and inset garnet cabochon; the broad faces tongue-shaped with beaded wire trims to the hoop and to the outer frame. See Ross M.C., Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Volume 2: Jewelry, Enamels and Art of the Migration Period, Washington, 2005, for discussion; cf. similarly shaped filigree and granulation finger ring in Benaki Museum, Athens in Bosselmann-Ruickbie, A., A 13th Century Jewellery Hoard from Thessalonica, in Entwistle, C. & Adams, N., Intelligible Beauty, Recent Research into Byzantine Jewellery, London, 2010, pl.37. 9.54 grams, 35.18 mm overall, 18.79 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R, USA 8 1/2, Europe 18 3/4, Japan 18) (1 3/8 in.) UK art market, 1999. Property of a London gentleman.