Oved’s animal magic
It was not catalogued as such, but this silver ring modelled as a standing lion with a gold-coloured mane is designed by Moshe Oved (1885-1958), the owner of celebrated Bloomsbury antique shop Cameo Corner where jewellery expert John Benjamin first learnt his trade.
It has the London hallmarks CC. Oved famously modelled the first of a series of lost wax-cast anim…