Modern gold ring from Rome with moss agate gem. Ring 19th century, Roman gem, 1st - 2nd century A.D. 4.87g, ring size 56. Ring of gold wire with love knot on the shoulder and a rail of two gold wires, in the setting a Roman gem of moss agate with a cow on a stand line and a bush behind it. Published and exhibited! Gold! Exhibited in London in June 1977, published in: D. Scarisbrick, The Wellington Gems (1977) cat. no. 14 ( Gold ring with bloodstone intaglio. A cow. Roman ). Intact. Provenance: From the gem collection of His Highness Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington (1807-1884), acquired by S.J. Phillips in 1978; subsequently British private collection; repurchased by S.J. Phillips in February 2014.

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