A Roman Iron Ring and Four Ring Stones

Circa 1st-4th Century A.D.

Ring size 6 1/2.

Property from a California Private Collection

[Ring]

Art Market, Germany.

Private Collection, United Kingdom, acquired from the above in the 1990s.

Chiswick Auctions, London, Antiquities & Tribal Art, 11 December 2018, Lot 59.

[Leftmost and two rightmost]

Horatio and Patsy Melas, Alexandria, Egypt, acquired prior to 1967; thence by descent in Switzerland and London.

Chiswick Auctions, Antiquities, London, 11 May 2016, Lot 123.

[Second from left]

Private Collection, New York.

Ander's Auction, Brooklyn, New York, Fine Ancient and Asian Antiques, 18 March 2017, Lot 5.

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Mr. Coley joined the Antiquities department in 2021 after working as Managing Director in the Ancient Art department at Colnaghi, the world’s oldest commercial art gallery, where he helped to establish the Ancient Art department and launched Colnaghi New York in 2017. Prior to Colnaghi, Mr. Coley was in the Greek and Roman Art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Coley holds a B.A. from the University of Miami and an M.A. in Art Market from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and he earned an art-appraisal certificate from New York University.

Jewelry Through the Ages: Ancient to Neoclassical

A Roman Iron Ring and Four Ring Stones

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