Details

⅞ in. (2 cm.) high; ring size 6¾


Provenance
Acquired by the current owner, New Orleans, 1966 or prior.
Literature
J.B. Byrnes, The Odyssey of an Art Collector: Unity in Diversity/Five Thousand Years of Art, New Orleans, 1966, p. 143, no. 37.
Exhibited
New Orleans, The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, The Odyssey of an Art Collector: Unity in Diversity/Five Thousand Years of Art, 11 November 1966-8 January 1967.
Cambridge, Fogg Art Musuem, 1984-1986 (loan no. 0034.1984)
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The bezel of this ring depicts Nike dressed in a chiton standing before a thymiaterion. In her left hand she holds a wreath, the symbol of victory.

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