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LOT 0423
Georgian Silver 'Vive Memor Leti' Memento Mori Ring
18TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (4.14 grams, 22.92 mm overall, 18.42 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16)).
With stepped lozengiform bezel, central gilt plaque with skeleton and star, guilloche to the shoulder; inscribed in florid italic hand to the inner face of the hoop 'Vive Memor Leti' (be mindful of death in life). [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1980s.
FootnotesThe Latin phrase is taken from the work of the 1st century AD poet Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satires V 151-3: vive memor leti ! fugit hora; hoc quod loquor inde est (Live mindful of death. Time is fleeting [and] every word I speak is [borrowed] from it.).
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