Details

LOT 0342

Stuart Period Gold, Rock Crystal and White Enamel Ring

17TH CENTURY A.D.

3/4 in. (1.89 grams, 21.50 mm overall, 16.63 mm internal diameter (approximate size British L 1/2, USA 6, Europe 11.87, Japan 11)).

A gold ring composed of a slender hoop embellished with tapering, white enamelled shoulders with black enamelled flourishes, fluted box collet setting, set with a pink foil back and table-cut rock crystal; accompanied by a vintage ring box.

Provenance

Valued by Bentley & Skinner, Piccadilly, London W1, 2016.
Property of an East Sussex collector.

Accompanied by a copy of the Bentley & Skinner insurance valuation.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11669-197584.

Literature

Cf. The V&A Museum, accession number 1112-1864, for a similar ring; cf. Oman, C., British Rings 800-1914, London, 1974, pl. 3, for similar rings; cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, Vol.1, Leeds, 1994, items 757-758, for similar; cf. Oman, C., British Rings 800-1914, London, 1974, pl. III, for a similar ring.

Footnotes

The V & A Museum explains that during the '...Renaissance, the ring developed from the simple forms of the medieval period into a miniature work of art, combining the skills of the chaser, engraver and enameller as well as the stone cutter.