11th-14th century AD. A hollow-formed gold finger ring with tapering flat-section hoop, reserved arabesque detailing, drum-shaped bezel with hatched texture, inset polychrome glass cabochon. Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 5129 for type. 8.10 grams, 29.3mm overall, 16.9mm internal diameter (approximate size British M 1/2, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.09, Japan 12) (1"). From the David John Dennis collection of ancient jewellery; acquired on the UK art market in the early 2000s. David Dennis started collecting items when he was a 10 year old boy during the Blitz in London, gathering parts of nose cones from shells and other pieces of shrapnel that had fallen from the skies. After the war he turned his attentions to cigarette cards, postage stamps, banknotes, coins and eventually ancient artefacts, predominantly Roman jewellery. Now living in Cumbria with his daughter, he decided it was time to part with his collections. [No Reserve]