ROMAN SILVER RING WITH BUST OF A YOUNG WOMAN

Ca. AD 1 - 300. > A silver ring with a broad flat-section hoop expanding into an oval bezel engraved with the bust of a young woman in profile to the left. Her hair is arranged in parallel incised strands and gathered at the nape. She has a broad nose, full lips and a rounded chin, with the drapery of her garment rendered in diagonal folds across the shoulder. > > Size: D:18.34mm / US: 8 1/4 / UK: Q; Weight: 5.9g > Provenance: From a London private collection; purchased in Germany; earlier part of a Swiss collection assembled in the 1990s > > >

Estimate:$266.56

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