Ca. 2nd-4th Century AD
A Roman gold ring with a carnelian female portrait intaglio. The ring is comprised of a massive hoop with strongly projecting shoulders and an eye-shaped bezel. The entire ring is decorated with elaborately incised patterns and openwork, with beautiful, open heart-shaped details symmetrically placed at the top of the shoulder. The ring is inset with a raised, oval-shaped and flat carnelian stone with a right-facing female portrait.
 
Provenance: London private collection; formerly ex. Swiss collection, Geneva, formed in the 1990s.