EXTREMELY RARE EGYPTIAN BRONZE CARTOUCHE RING. New Kingdom, Ca. 1550 - 1069 BC. A bronze ring with a rounded hoop that thickens to an oval bezel framed as a cartouche and engraved in low relief with a standing figure wearing a tall crown and raising one arm, flanked by hieroglyphic signs. Short tapering shoulders descend from the bezel to a plain D-section band. For similar see: J. Bagot, El legado de Hefesto: A Memorial to a Private Collection of Ancient Rings and Glyptics, n. 75. Size: D:18.95mm / US: 9 / UK: R 1/2; Weight: 7g Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old Oxford collection formed in the 1990s;