AN ANCIENT COPPER RING WITH AN INTAGLIO Persia, c. 1000. Found near Persepolis. The top set with an intaglio depicting a scorpion cut into a brown-red garnet.

Condition: Visibly worn condition with encrustations to the metal.
Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.

Weight: 4 g
Dimensions: Inner diameter 2 cm