VIKING SILVER TWISTED RING

CA. 900 - 1100 AD. A silver finger ring formed from several rods of wire twisted into an expanding plaited band, the lower section forged into a single round-section shank; D:17.5mm/L:25mm;UK N US 6/5; 6gr; Provenance: From an old British collection; previously acquired on the UK art market in the 1980/90s.