Gold Ring with a Recumbent Animal
Near Eastern style · 18.0K gold
A massive gold ring whose oval bezel carries an animal lying at rest in high relief, with swollen shoulders to either side.
- Style
- Near Eastern style; made now
- Form
- Ring
- Gold
- 18.0 karat — 75.0% gold by XRF
- Dimensions
- Height 2.6 cm (1 in.)
- Weight
- 27 g
- Ring size
- 10½ (US)
- Category
- Gold
- Reference
- VFA-014
- Price
- US$ 3,500
Catalogue Note
At twenty-seven grams this is the heaviest piece of gold in the collection, and it is built like it: a thick band rising to shoulders that swell outward, and a broad oval bezel on which an animal lies curled in relief, modelled rather than engraved.
Rings of this weight were statements of rank across the ancient Near East. This one reads 75 per cent gold by XRF — 18 karat — and is priced by weight. Ring size 10½ (US).
The price includes packing; carriage is quoted at cost once we know the destination. This piece is priced by weight against the price of gold. Write to us to buy it, or to ask anything at all beforehand — we answer the same day and send an invoice payable by card or transfer.
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