The bezel of oval shape engraved with a seated woman holding a wreath in her right hand, a dove perched on her left arm, Eros flying before her.
The bezel of oval shape engraved with a seated woman holding a wreath in her right hand, a dove perched on her left arm, Eros flying before her.
Provenance
Jan Mitchell (1913-2009), New York, probably acquired in the 1960s or earlier, thence by descent
Mitchell was a restaurateur and art collector who was a founding member of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and built an important collection of pre-Columbian gold that he gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Literature
For a related example in The Metropolitan Museum of Art see J. Boardman and D. Scarisbrick, The Ralph Harari Collection of Finger Rings, 1977, pp. 15-16, fig. 8