16th century AD. A gold finger ring with twisted wire hoop, triangular shoulders each with a granulated piriform cell and inset garnet, the bezel a cluster of turquoise, amethyst and carnelian beads between bosses on a lobed discoid plaque. Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, items 684, 685, for type.3.93 grams, 23.15mm overall, 19.47mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13) (1"). Property of an East Anglian collector; formerly acquired on the European art market in the 1990s.