PAIR OF ROMAN BRONZE INTAGLIO RINGS WITH CLASPED HANDS. Ca. AD 100 - 300. A pair of bronze intaglio rings, including, from left to right: a circular orange stone engraved with clasped hands set in a round bezel on a tapering hoop with grooved shoulders, and a dark red stone engraved with clasped hands set in an oval bezel on a solid D-section hoop. For similar see: J. Bagot, El legado de Hefesto: A Memorial to a Private Collection of Ancient Rings and Glyptics, n. 472. Size: D:17.32-18.14mm / US: 7-8 / UK: N 1/2-P 1/2; Weight: 9g Provenance: Private London collection; previously acquired from a New York private collection formed in the 1980s.