5th-7th century AD. An Arab-Sassanian nicolo intaglio gemstone with marriage scene, set into a later gold finger ring with hoop composed of conjoined bulbs, cup bezel with granules to the shoulders. Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 464 for type. 10.87 grams, 25mm overall, 19.33mm internal diameter (approximate size British S 1/2, USA 9 1/4, Europe 20.73, Japan 20) (1"). Property of a Suffolk collector; formerly acquired on the European art market in the 1990s.