RING SIZES ARE ONLY APPROXIMATE.

1. Solid gold Roman octagonal plain ring. 3rd/4th cent. AD. 1.5 cm diameter. UK J+/US 5 ￡750 (a lovely wedding band)

2. Octagonal tiny child’s gold ring, the bezel etched with a palm leaf representing peace. Roman, c. 2nd cent. AD. (ideal on a chain as a christening present)￡195

3) Roman tapered hoop gold ring with wide shoulders and large oval cabochon garnet. c. 2nd cent. AD. Size: M UK/US 4.0 ￡1,650

4) Thick bronze ring with tinned bezel depicting the embossed head of Berenike, the second, wife of Ptolemy III. (She ruled Egypt from 246-241 BC when Ptolemy was campaigning in Syria) Hellenistic, c. 2nd/1st cent. BC. (UK H/US 4). Rare.￡750

5) Late Roman gold ring with tapered hoop, sloping decorated shoulders and oval bezel set with a conical agate white stone with deepening orange bands. c. 3rd cent. AD. Size: UK I/US 6.5 ￡1,750

6) Medieval gold ring with wire hoop and circular openwork bezel set with 6 emeralds surrounding a central garnet. c. 15th cent. AD. (UK H/US 4) ￡2,450

7) A large heavy Roman silver ring, its broad shoulders with a carnelian intaglio depicting a caduceus flanked by a cornucopia. Late 3rd/4th cent. AD. Size: T UK/US 10.5 ￡1,450

8) Roman silver ring of penannular form terminating in flattened snakes’ heads. c. 2nd cent. AD. £475

ALL EARRINGS ARE FITTED WITH MODERN GOLD ‘S’ HOOKS FOR WEARING UNLESS THERE IS AN INTEGRAL HOOK.

9) Pair of gold Roman earrings shaped like a quarter segment of a sphere. c. 2nd cent. AD.1.6 cm h ￡800

11) Pair of similar Hellenistic earrings with lion head terminals, spiralled tapered hoop , gold wire decoration around the collar, one eye still inlaid with red glass. c. 2nd/1st cent. BC. ￡1250

12) Pair of gold Roman wire hoop earrings with a plain convex boss. c. 2nd/3rd cent. AD. d 15 mm ￡375

13) Pair of openwork Roman gold earrings set with a central garnet, sitting on a ledge with three pearl drops suspended beneath. Integral hook behind. .
3rd cent. AD. 3.0 cm h ￡1,850 (pearls recent additions)

14) Pair of gold wire hoop earrings with a tiny drop of gold granules forming a bunch of grapes. h 1.5 mm £375

15) Roman gold phallus amulet with suspension loop. 1st/2nd cent. AD. 16 mm h. ￡350 Worn for fertility

16) Egyptian Udjat-eye pendant of speckled diorite. Late Period, c. 600 BC. 2 cm high (Modern gold suspension loop attached) ￡425 The udjat-eye (or wedjat-eye), was a symbol of the power of the god of light, It was also used as a protection against the evil-eye.

17) Gold pendant composed of crescent-shaped box setting containing a glass crescent (imitating garnet) decorated with beaded borders, a green oval stone set above, with Isis feathers to either side, wire tendril decoration below, and another circular setting below, the crescent, suspension loop behind. East Roman, c. 1st/2nd cent. AD. Ex: English Private Collection. 2.5 cm high. ￡850

20) A gold and garnet ‘pin’ with a heart-shaped garnet within a gold box setting with beaded borders, circular green glass and an oval garnet above, the ‘pin’ a straightened earring hoop. Hellenistic, c. 2nd/1st cent. BC. (with perspex mount). 7 cm long ￡850 Provenance: Sir Sydney Nolan collection, sold Christie’s London, 8th December, 1993, lot 93.