Jewellery, Watches, Antiquities and Objects of Vertu

An early 19th century unusual gold band ring modelled on the coins of the Heptanese islands, composed of seven roundels each engraved with a different central detail, including a trident, a lyre, a ship, a male profile and figures, and abbreviated Greek inscription, to a central eschutchon-shaped panel initialled, ring size P. £200-£300

The details to the roundels represent the coin types of each of the islands of the Heptanese, the seven Ionian islands which were controlled by Venice from the 13th century - Kerkyra (Corfu), Pax (Paxos), Lefkado (Santa Maura or Lefkas), Ithaki (Ithaca), Kefallonia (Cephalonia), Zkynthos (Zante), Kythira (Cythera or Cerigo). There is a similar ring in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.