A Merovingian High Karat Gold Ring 6Th/ 7Th Century

A Byzantine gold ring with a jewish menorah and an inscription. A typical early Byzantine ring made with soldered circular section wire and round b...

Of rectangular form, with a Greek cross cut from a sheet of gold leaf set beneath a layer of pale blue glass, mounted in 22kt yellow gold, the intaglio 15mm wide, finger size 7 1/2 W...

The hoop formed of two wire ropes, joined to the underside of the circular two-stepped bezel by sheet strap and twisted wires, the outer edge grooved, the bezel with nine cloisonnés set with foil-backed garnets...

Gold ring with oval plain hoop broadening to bezel with inset with an oval banded agate intaglio with the goddess Fortuna standing in profile to the right, holding two sheaves of whe...

Byzantine (the Eastern Roman Empire) circa 500 – 600 AD. This highly important, museum rarity early Christian gold (approximately 22.85 Kt) ring is engraved with the bust of Christ holding a Gospel Book. His nimb is decorated with a cross. Christ is flanked by two crosses, one is slightly higher than the other. There is a gold ring similar in shape and composition of the image with the Virgin and Christ Child in the center flanked by two crosses (the left cross is also engraved slightly higher than the cross on the right side): a ring is in the Byzantine collection at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., That ring is stated to be a part of the late 6th century jewelry treasury. See Catalog of The Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in The Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Volume 2, page 138, O, and plate XCVIII. It is possible that this ring and the ring at Dumbarton Oaks were produced at the same workshop at the same time period. The round gold plaque with Christ has a diameter of 12 mm (almost 1/2 in.) Weight is 6.62 grams. Approximate ring size 10 (21 mm) resizable Condition: solid gold ring, all original, itact and wearable. Metal analysis: 95.23% gold, 4.77% silver.  The gold purity of this ring is identical to the level of purity of the Byzantine gold coin...

Byzantine monogram ring in gold. A gold ring, fitted to centre with a raised square plaque featuring curving corners, incised centrally with a decorative...

The 7th century Roman intaglio is set into the Castellani® Artemis designed ring. The intaglio is set under the bezel, as jewellers did intaglio and cameo rings 2000 years ago. The g...

This Ancient intaglio is from the 3rd to 7th Century from the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE, also known as Sassanian, Sasanid or Sassanid). The wild animal in this carving is a lion an...