RARE GREEK GOLD RING WITH SIREN PLAYING AULOS

Ca. 500 - 300 BC. A gold ring with a slender semicircular hoop supporting a broad oval bezel plate engraved with a siren standing to the right, with a human head, avian body, long feathered wings and clawed feet, playing the aulos, a double-piped wind instrument. For similar see: Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford, Record Number: 445. Size: D:18.54mm / US: 8 1/2 / UK: Q 1/2; Weight: 9.6g Provenance: Private London collection; previously in a South-German private collection formed on the European art market in the 1980s and 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.