Golden Splendour – Gold Jewellery from the Collection of Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter

Golden Splendour – Gold Jewellery from the Collection of Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1038. A gold ring with an inscribed lozenge bezel Central Java, Indonesia, 9th - 10th century | 九至十世紀 印尼中爪哇 銘文金戒指.

Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection 雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品

A gold ring with an inscribed lozenge bezel Central Java, Indonesia, 9th - 10th century | 九至十世紀 印尼中爪哇 銘文金戒指

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July 28, 02:47 AM GMT

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35,000 - 40,000 HKD

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Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection

A gold ring with an inscribed lozenge bezel

Central Java, Indonesia, 9th - 10th century

雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品

九至十世紀 印尼中爪哇 銘文金戒指


The two-tier lozenge-shaped bezel chased with a repetitive stylized script. A similar ring in the Wereldmuseum collection is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Goud der Goden: uit het oude Java [Gold of the Gods from Ancient Java], Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, 2014, p. 236.


d. 1.6 cm; 40 grams

Habsburg-Feldman Geneva, 14th May 1990, lot 139.
Susan Ollemans, 'Ancient Gold Rings from Asia. The Tuyet Nguyet Collection’, Arts of Asia, July-August 2017, pl. 2.