5th-6th century AD. A gold finger ring with two-ply twisted wire hoop, granule and triangular panel to each shoulder, twisted filigree collar to the cell and inset silver plaque, intaglio Mary Theotokos and infant Jesus. Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 482 for type. 5.27 grams, 23.77mm overall, 20.94mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16) (3/4"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired by his father in the 1970s; thence by descent.