Medieval gold ring brooch

A Medieval gold ring brooch.French or English, 13th century.

Measures 2.5cm in diameter.

Weighs 3.9 grams.

Provenance:
- Comtesse Martine-Marie-Octavie Pol de Béhague (1870-1939), Paris; thence by descent to Marquis Jean-Louis Hubert de Ganay (1922-2013), France.
- Antiquités et Objets d'Art: Collection de Martine, Comtesse de Béhague, Provenant de la Succession du Marquis de Ganay, Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 204.
- Private English Collection.

The ring is engraved in latin ‘DEVM TIME ET MANDA[TA] EVIS [sic] OBSERVA’,[Ecclesiastes 12. v.13] which translates as “Fear God and observe His commandments”.

The fastening pin bears a French control mark “ET” denoting that it has travelled through a French assay office in the 19th century.