cameo;
finger-ring
- Museum number
- 1872.0604
- Description
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Gold ring set with three onyx cameos. Left: a camel to right in white on grey (Dalton 308); Centre: a mare and foal to left in grey on black (Dalton 309); Right: two deer to left in white on grey (Dalton 310). The ring has a long octagonal bezel with cut-down setting, containing the three cameos beneath glass. Each cameo has its own milled setting, with a twisted wire border round all three, the spaces filled with twisted wire loops.
- Production date
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17thC (cameos)
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19thC (ring)
- Dimensions
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Length: 43 millimetres (ring bezel)
- Curator's comments
- Supplementary information to Dalton 1915.
Not identified in (G&R) 1872.6-4, register.
Dalton described the ring as 'modern'; it is early 19th century.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Glass slightly damaged on right bottom.
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1872.0604