Ring mit hochovalem Schild. 1920s.
Silver, cut, chiselled and hammered.
With the signature stamp on the rear. 5.2 x 2.3 x 2 cm (2 x 0.9 x 0.7 in).

PROVENANCE: Rosa Schapire or Elsa Delbanco Collection, Hamburg/London.
Gustav Delbanco, London.
Private collection Great Britain (inherited from the above).
Private collection Lower Saxony (acquired in 2019, Bonhams June 27, 2019).

LITERATURE: Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Plastik und Kunsthandwerk, Catalogue Raisonné, Munich 2001, no. 482 (illu.).
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Anne Ward, Rings through the ages, New York 1981, p. 139.
Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein, Neumünster 1984, pp. 96, 104.
Anne Ward, Der Ring im Wandel der Zeit, Erlangen 1987, p. 158.
Gerhard Wietek, Schmidt-Rottluff, Oldenburger Jahre 1907-1912,
Oldenburg 1995, p. 205.

In good condition. Surface slightly tarnished.